COX, Henry Chambers Murray. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 58 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1853 to 1869; general 9 Dec. 1871. d. St. Ann’s, Burnham, Somerset 22 July 1876.
COX, John. Second lieut. Rifle brigade 16 March 1808, major 19 Aug. 1828 to 17 Feb. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 18 Dec. 1855; colonel 88 foot 13 Oct. 1860 to death; K.H. 1832. d. Cheltenham 7 Feb. 1863.
COX, John Hamilton (only son of Wm. Cox, K.H. who d. 13 Jany. 1857). b. 1817; ensign 75 foot 10 Oct. 1834, captain 23 March 1849 to 2 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; brigade major to Highland brigade during Indian mutiny; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. retired on full pay 5 July 1873. d. 37 Sterndale road, West Kensington, London 10 March 1887.
COX, John Lewis. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London; master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. d. Ham Common near London 1 Feb. 1856 aged 79.
COX, Robert (3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh, leather-dresser). b. Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited Phrenological Journal, numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index to the 22 vols. of Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 1842; author of Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties 1853; The literature of the Sabbath question 2 vols. 1865; bequeathed his collection of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.
COX, Talbot Ashley. b. 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853, lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Cawnpore 9 Dec. 1877.
COX, William. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20 June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.
COX, Sir William (3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford 1749–93). b. Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct. 1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810 when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col. Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s County 1825. d. Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July 1864.
COX, William James (2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London). b. 2 Feb. 1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years; champion of England at game of tennis. d. Brantford, Canada West 30 June 1864. J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis (1878) 100–106.
COX, William Sands (eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham, surgeon 1769–1863). b. 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school in Europe; author of A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body 1831; Annals of Queen’s college 4 vols. 1873. d. Woodside, Kenilworth 23 Dec. 1875. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i, 61–6 (1865), portrait, reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv, 155–60 (1873); E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 132–39.