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HENRY OCTAVIUS COXE (1811–1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY OCTAVIUS See also:COXE (1811–1881)  , See also:English librarian and See also:scholar, was See also:born at Bucklebury, in See also:Berkshire, on the loth of See also:September 1811 . He was educated at See also:Westminster school and See also:Worcester See also:College, See also:Oxford . Immediately on taking his degree in 1833, he began See also:work in the See also:manuscript See also:department of the See also:British Museum, became in 1838 sub-librarian of the Bodleian, at Oxford, and in 186o succeeded Dr Bandinel as See also:head librarian, an See also:office he held until his See also:death in 1881 . Having proved himself an able palaeographer, he was sent out by the British See also:government in 1857 to inspect the See also:libraries in the monasteries of the See also:Levant . He discovered some valuable See also:manuscripts, but the monks were too See also:wise to See also:part with their treasures . One valuable result of his travels was the detection of the See also:forgery attempted by See also:Constantine See also:Simonides . He was the author of various catalogues, and under his direction that of the Bodleian, in more than 720 volumes, was completed . He published Rogtri de See also:Wendover Chronica, 5 vols . (1841–1844); the See also:Black See also:Prince, an See also:historical poem written in See also:French by See also:Chandos See also:Herald (1842); and See also:Report on the See also:Greek Manuscripts yet remaining in the Libraries of the Levant (1858) . He was not only an accurate librarian but an active and hard-working clergyman, and was for the last twenty-five years of his See also:life in See also:charge of the See also:parish of Wytham, near Oxford . He was likewise honorary See also:fellow of Worcester and Corpus Christi Colleges . He died on the 8th of See also:July 1881 .

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