John Cox-Edwards Explained

John Cox Cox-Edwards[1] (1839–1926) was a Church of England priest and chaplain in the Royal Navy who rose to be Chaplain of the Fleet[2] from 1888[3] to 1899.[4]

Harbord was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge[5] He was ordained deacon in 1863; and priest in 1864. After curacies in Hinckley,[6] Colmworth[7] and Bolnhurst[8] he was with the Royal Navy from 1871[9] to 1899.[10] He served in China, Ireland,[11] Australia[12] and Egypt[13] before coming back to England as Head of the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service and inspector of Naval Schools.[14] He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen[15] from 1896[16] until[17] 1901. He was then Rector[18] of Ecton[19] from 1900[20] to 1908.[21]

In retirement he lived in Southsea[22] and died there on 25 March 1926.[23]

Notes and References

  1. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CORNISH/2000-02/0949448540 Rootsweb
  2. http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/pageturner.cfm?id=94432196&mode=transcription NLS
  3. 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Saturday, 5 May 1888; pg. 3; Issue 19912. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  4. ‘COX-EDWARDS, Rev. John Cox’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 May 2017
    • Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 Part II Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche p395, 1944.
  6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p326 London: Herbert Cox, 1908
  7. http://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityArchives/Colmworth/ColmworthSchool.aspx Beds Archives
  8. https://www.curiousfox.com/uk/r.lasso?vid=20418&-nothing Curious Fox
  9. 'NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS' Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Wednesday, 6 September 1871; Issue 4075. British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800–1900
  10. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27047/page/603/data.pdf London Gazette 31 January 1899
  11. 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Saturday, 15 August 1874; pg. 3; Issue 15616. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  12. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18760926.2.20 National Library of New Zealand
  13. http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/anchaplains.htm Malta Family History
  14. Court Circular.The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 26 May 1891; pg. 9; Issue 33334
  15. [Aberdeen Press & Journal]
  16. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26720/page/1612/data.pdf London Gazette 10 March 1896
  17. 'MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN THE HON. E. DAWSON AND LADY ELIZABETH MEADE' The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, 28 April 1898; pg. 7; Issue 39280. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  18. "The Genealogical Magazine" Volume IV p272 (May 1900 to April 1901) London Elliot Stock, 1901
  19. http://www.ectonvillage.co.uk/church/the-rectors-of-ecton/ Ecton Village
  20. 'Crown Office' The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, 12 September 1900; pg. 8; Issue 23779. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
  21. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28173/page/6371/data.pdf London Gazette 1 September 1908
  22. 14 St David's Road . Kelly's Directory Portsmouth/Southsea: 1922
  23. The Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 30 March 1926; pg. 19; Issue 44233

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