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Hon. Francis Thomas Dk-Gbbt CowPBB^ eldest son of the sixth Earl« was born in 1834, and edu- cated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took a first-class in law and modern history in 1855. On his father's death, in 1856, he suc- ceeded to the title. He was Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms from April, 1871, to Dec. 1873. On May 5, 1880, he was installed Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland at Dublin Castle, and he held that post till April 28, 1882, when he was succeeded by Earl Spencer.

COX, The Rev. Sir Grorge William, Bart., M.A., born in 1827, was educated at Bugby and at Trinity College, Oxford, of which he was scnolar, and where he graduated S.C.L. in 1849, and proceeded B.A. and M.A. in 1859. He entered holy orders in 1850, and was curate of Salcombe Begis, Devon, in 1850-1, of St. Paul's, Exeter, in 1854-7, and held an assistant-mastership in Chel- tenham College in 1860-1, was Vicar of Bekesboume, Kent, 1881, and is now Rector of Scrayingham, York. He is the author of ** Poems, Le- gendary and Historical," published in 1850; '* Life of St. Boniface," in 1853; " Tales from Greek Mytho- logy," and "The Great Persian War," in 1861; " Tales of the Gods and Heroes," in 1862; "Tales of Thebes and Argos," in 1868; "A Manual of Mythology in the form of Question and Answer," in 1867; lected edition, 1868; " Latin and Teutonic Christendom," 1870; " The Mythology of the Aryan Nations," 2 vols. 1870; ** A History of Greece," 2 vols. 1874; " The Crusades," 1874; "The Greeks and the Persians," 1876; "The Athenian Empire," 1876; " A General History of Greece, from the earliest period to the death of Alexander the Great, with a sketch of the subsequent History to the present time," 1876; " School His- tory of Greece," 1877; "Tales of Ancient Greece," 1877; "His- tory of British Rule in India/'
 * ' Tales of Ancient Greece," col-

1881; " Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folk- lore," 1881; " Alexander the Great," and other articles in the new edition of the " Encyclopedia Britannica." He has been a contributor to the Edinbwrgh Review since 1857. He edited (jointly with the late W. T. Brande) the " Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art" (3 vols. 1865-7; new edit. 3 vols. 1875^. On the death of his uncle Sir Eamund Cox, which occurred in Canada in Aug. 1877, l^e succeeded to the baronetcy; and he is the 15th baronet in suc- cession from Sir Richard Cox, Chan- cellor of Ireland. With regard to this baronetcy it is a singular cir- cmnstance that the title has never descended from father to eldest son, and only twice to a surviving son.

COX, The Rev. John Edmitnd, D.D., born at Norwich in 1812, was educated at the Norwich Grammar School, and afterwards as a Bible clerk at All Souls' College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1836. In 1837 he was presented to the per- petual curacy of Aldeby, Norfolk, by Bishop Stanley. In 1842 he became minister of St. Mary's, Southtown, Great Yarmouth, and was appointed chaplain of the g^aol in that town. In 1844 he removed to the curacy of St. Dunstan's, Stepney; and in 1849 he was pre- ferred by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's to the vicarage of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. He edited the " Memoir of Sarah Martin," the Yarmouth prison visitor, and is the author of "Principles of the Reformation," a " Life of Cranmer," " Life of Luther," " Protestantism contrasted with Romanism," &c. He edited James's "Bellum Papale," James's "Treatise on the Corrup- tion of Scripture," " The Works of Cranmer " (for the Parker Society), and other religious and contro- versial works. He has also written and edited a considerable niunber of publications on Freemasonry, the most important of which are " Dr. Ashe's Manual and Lectures^"