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John Charles Cox

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1919

John Charles Cox (1843–1919) was an English cleric, activist and local historian.

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Life

He was born in Parwich, Derbyshire, the son of Edward Cox, vicar of Lincombe, Somerset, and was educated at Repton School. He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, for two years from 1862, but left without graduating, becoming a partner in the Wingerworth Coal Company, Derbyshire. He remained with the company to 1885, but was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1881.

As rector of Barton-le-Street from 1886, and of Holdenby from 1893, Cox made a reputation as a local historian, an area he had written on from the 1870s. From 1900 he was in Sydenham, and concentrated on writing. He died on 23 February 1919.

Works

  • The Rise of the Farm Labourer: A Series of Articles ... Illustrative of Certain Political Aspects of the Agricultural Labour Movement (1874) with Henry Fisher Cox
  • Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, 4 vols., 1877–9
  • How to Write the History of a Parish (1879)
  • The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (Joseph Strutt, 1801), editor, 1903
  • The Royal Forests of England (1905)
  • English Church Furniture (1908), with Alfred Harvey
  • The Parish Registers of England (1910)
  • The Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers of Medieval England (1911)
  • The Parish Churches of England; edited with additional chapters by Charles Bradley Ford. London: B. T. Batsford, 1935 (followed by later editions)

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