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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 75 Ml'. Cox was the first landholder ia the Mudgee district to lease his land to tenants, which he commenced to do just after the gold discovery in 1851. He is well known as a wool grower throughout the colonies, and also abroad. His exhibits have secured him numerous prizes, having won, in 1862, the gold medal given by Messrs. Mort and Co., for greasy wool, a gold medal and diploma of honour at the Amsterdam Exhibition of 1862, another gold medal at Calcutta, in 1863, and in 1878 the Grand Prix at Paris for the best wool in the world, besides numerous other prizes. He is a member of the Council of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, president of the Mudgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society, a member of the Synod for the dioceses both of Bathurst and of Sydney, and is now senior member of the Legisla- tive Council of New South Wales. Hincage. This family was at one time seated in Dorsetshire. Robeet Cox, Esq. of Wim- borne, in that county, b in 1731, was the only surviying son of William Cox, Esq., who was b. in 1695, and was the son of Thomas Cox, Esq. of Wimborne, co. Dorset, who was b. in 1670. Robert Cox in. and had, with otuer issue, a son, Captain William Cox, of Clarendon, N.S.W., and formerly of Devizes, co. Wilts, where he was b. in 176i ; obtained a com- mission in the army in 1795, and arrived in New South Wales in 1801 as paymaster of the 102nd Regiment or New South Wales Corps, m charge of a number of convicts, chiefly Irishmen, who were concerned in the Rebellion of 1798, amongst wliom was Holt, the leader or general. Mr. Cox retired from the army, and became a successful colonist, first at Brush Farm on the Parramatta river (where he employed Greneral Holt as man- ager), and subsequently at Clarendon on the Hawkestury river. Mr. Cox was chosen by Governor Macquarie to construct the road which crosses the Blue Mountains from Sydney, crosses Cox's river, and connects Bathurst Tvith the coast. Tliis road is 130 miles in length, and for the service i-endered by its construction Mr. Cox received a grant of land in the Batliurst plains, which he called Hereford. He afterwards took up land in the Mulgoa valley, and also formed stations on the Macquarie river at Biu'rend- ong, and on the Coolah creek. In 1833 he removed from Clarendon to Fairfield, near Windsor. He was for some time engaged in pastoral pursuits, and the progeny of his merinos from the Cape now form the cele- brated Mudgee flocks. Mr. Cox was a magis- trate of the Territory, and d. at Fairfield, near Windsor, in 1837, and was buried in the family vault at St. Matthew's Church, Wind- sor. He had issue, I. William, of Hobartville, Richmond, N.S.W. II. James, of Clarendon, Tasmania. III. Charles, killed by natives of Fiji, South Sea Islands. IV. Geoege, of whom presently. T. Henry, of Broombee, N.S.W. Ti. Edward of Fernhill, N.S.W., grandfather of Edward Standish Cox, Esq. (see Cox of Fernside). George Cox, Esq. of Winbourn, Mulgoa, b. 1795, m. 1822, Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Bell, Esq. of Belmont, ensign in the 102nd Regiment (she d. 1876), and d. 1868, having had, I. George Henet (Hon.). of whom we treat. II. Archibald Bell, b. 1825, m. 1858, Fanny Lamb, and d. 1863, leaving three surviving daughters. III. James Charles, b. 1829, and d. same year. IV. Charles Clarendon, h. 1831, at Clarendon, near Windsor ; m. first, 1855, Louisa Stuart, and by her had one daughter. He m. secondly, 1860, Jidia Haylock, and by her had two children, one son and one daughter, and, thirdly, 1867, Charlotte Miller, and had issue by her, six children — four sons and two daughters. He d. 16th June, 1878, at Broombee. V. James Dalrymple, b. 1834 ; unm. TI. Frederick Savage, b. 1835, m. 1861, Mary Hannah Miller. He d. 1868, having had ten children. VII. Alexander Hassall, b. 1837, m. 1866, Agnes Christinn Douglas Dickson, and has eight children. VIII. Albert Tarlton, b. 1841 ; unm. I. Eliza Georgina, b. 1823, m. 1847, John Hobart Cox, Esq., and d. 1886, leaving nine children. II. Rebecca Maria, b. 1827, m. 1852, to the Rev. Alfred Hamilton Hewlett Stephen, canon of St. Andrew's Ca- thedral, eldest son of the Hon. Sir Alfred Stephen, G.C.M.G., C.B., lieu- tenant-governor of New South Wales (see Stephen of Sydney), and by him (who is now deceased) had six children, five of whom survive. III. Sophia Matilda, b. 1832, m. 1856,