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SIR GEORGE WILLIAM COX (1827-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:GEORGE See also:WILLIAM See also:COX (1827-1902)  , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born on the loth of See also:January 1827, at See also:Benares, See also:India, and was educated at See also:Rugby and Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford . In 185o he was ordained, and in 186o took a mastership at See also:Cheltenham College, which he held for only a See also:year . He had already contributed to the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review, and had published in 185o Poems, Legendary and See also:Historical (with E . A . See also:Freeman), and in 1853 a See also:Life of St Bonif See also:ace . From r861 he devoted himself entirely to See also:literary See also:work, chiefly in connexion with See also:history and See also:comparative See also:mythology . Many of his See also:works were avowedly popular in See also:character, and the most important, the History of See also:Greece, has been superseded and is now of little value . His studies in mythology were inspired by Max See also:Muller, but his treatment of the subjects was his own . He was an extreme supporter of the See also:solar and nebular theory as the explanation of myths . He also edited (with W . T . See also:Brande) A See also:Dictionary of See also:Science, Literature and See also:Art (1875) .

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

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