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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915. Deputy Registrar, High Court, 1892; Registrar, High Court; on Special duty in connection with the revision of High Court Criminal rules of practice. 1895: Collector of Madras, 1900; Inspector: General of Police, Madras, 1907; Collector of Madras, 1913. Address: Wood’s Road, Royapettah; Madras Club.  Cox, Arthur Frederick, C.S I. (1901); Indian Civil Service, retired; b. Kurnool, Madras Presidency. 1849; 4th s. of late Major Edward Thomas Cox, H.E.N.S. of Ham CommanCommon [sic] Surrey; m Flora, d. of late Alexander Ranken of Hampstead; Educ.: Great Ealing School; King’s Coll. School and King’s Coll., London; Entered I.C.S. 1871; served in the Madras Revenue and Magisterial Department until 1882, when he joined the Finance Department of the Government of India; appointed Assistant, Controller-General, Madras, 1883; returned to Madras as District and Sessions Judge, 1887-89; reappointed to the Financial Department as Dy. Accountant-General, Bombay, 1885; Accountant-General Bombay, 1889; transferred to Bengal as Accountant-General, 1895; Comptroller and Auditor-General, 1898: Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal for public service in India, 1900; retired, 1900. Publication: The District Manual of North AroctArcot [sic], Madras Presidency 1st. Edn. 1880. Address: Cumballa, Meads, Eastbourne. Club: East India United Service.  Cox, Edmund C., retired Dy. Inspector-General of Police Bombay; s. of the Rev. George William Cox, Rector of SeraginghamScrayingham [sic], who assumed in 1873 the baronecty of ofof [sic] Cox (cr. 1706) of DunmaiirasDunmanway [sic], Cork. He died without having established or recorded his right to the dignity. He claimed to be the 14th Baronet. His son Edward Charles claimed and assumed the title but was opposed by John Hantrey Reginald Cox (el. son of the late Maj-Gen. John Cox C.B. Gordon Highlanders) who claimed the title and assumed it in 1896. The case came before a Committee of the Privy Council on Nov. 9th 1911, which resolved to advise His Majesty that neither of them had made out their title to the dignity and that therefore their names should not be entered on the official Roll of Baronets in respect of the Baronetcy claimed by them; b. 1856: Educ. at Marlborough, and at Trinity College, Cambridge; appointed Assistant Inspector General of Police, Bombay, 1877. Publications: Short History of the Bombay Presidency; Tales of Ancient India; John Carruthers; Indian Policeman; My Thirty years in India 1909. Address: Bayfield House, Shanklin, Isle of WeightWight [sic].  Cox, Harold, B.A., Editor, EdinburgEdinburgh [sic] Review; b. 1859; s. of late Homersham Cox, Judge of County Courts; Educ.: Tonbridge School; Jesus College, Cambridge; President, Cambridge Union lectured on Political Economy for Cambridge University Extension Society in York and Hull; worked nearly a year as an agricultural labourer in Kent and Surrey in order to gain an insight into the life of English labourers; spent two years in India teaching mathematics in the Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh; proceedproceeded [sic] to England and was called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn, 1877; adopted journalism as a profession; Secretary of the Cobden Club, 1889-1904; M.P.(L.) Preston, 1906-10. Publications: Land Nationalisation and Land Taxation; various pamphletpamphlets [sic] 102