SIR

See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• SIR GEORGE WILLIAM COX (1827-1902)

COX (1827-1902)  , English divine and scholar, was born on the loth of January 1827, at Benares, India, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford . In 185o he was ordained, and in 186o took a mastership at Cheltenham College, which he held for only a year . He had already contributed to the Edinburgh Review, and had published in 185o Poems, Legendary and Historical (with E . A . Freeman), and in 1853 a Life of St Bonif ace . From r861 he devoted himself entirely to literary work, chiefly in connexion with history and comparative mythology . Many of his works were avowedly popular in character, and the most important, the History of Greece, has been superseded and is now of little value . His studies in mythology were inspired by Max Muller, but his treatment of the subjects was his own . He was an extreme supporter of the solar and nebular theory as the explanation of myths . He also edited (with W . T . Brande) A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art (1875) .

Sir George Cox (who succeeded to the baronetcy in 1877 ) was a Broad Churchman, and a prominenf'supporter of Bishop Colenso in 1863-1865; and five years after Colenso's death he published (1888) his Life of the bishop . He was himself nominated to the see of Natal, but was refused consecration . In 1881 he was made vicar of Scrayingham, York, but resigned the living in 1897 . In 1896 he was given a civil list pension . He died at Walmer on the 9th of February 1902 .