James Cox

(1693-1746 fl.)

LBT ID: JaCoxe1746	B/BAP: 1693-03-27
SOURCES: Alumni Oxonienses; Edmund Whytehead Howson, Harrow School (1898) 59
The son of Henry Cox of London; educated at Merton College, Oxford, he was headmaster of Harrow (1730-46) when, having lived a “disorderly, drunken, idle life,” he absconded.
REFERENCES TO James Cox: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. I. 1747-1752 Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 1: ¶ 3