John Cox Cox-Edwards [1] (1839–1926) was a Church of England priest and chaplain in the Royal Navy who rose to be Chaplain of the Fleet [2] from 1888 [3] to 1899. [4]
Harbord was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge [5] He was ordained deacon in 1863; and priest in 1864. After curacies in Hinckley, [6] Colmworth [7] and Bolnhurst [8] he was with the Royal Navy from 1871 [9] to 1899. [10] He served in China, Ireland, [11] Australia [12] and Egypt [13] before coming back to England as Head of the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service and inspector of Naval Schools. [14] He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen [15] from 1896 [16] until [17] 1901. He was then Rector [18] of Ecton [19] from 1900 [20] to 1908. [21]
In retirement he lived in Southsea [22] and died there on 25 March 1926. [23]
Footnotes
- ^ Rootsweb
- ^ NLS
- ^ 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Saturday, 5 May 1888; pg. 3; Issue 19912. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
- ^ ‘COX-EDWARDS, Rev. John Cox’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 May 2017
- ^ *Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 Part II Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche p395, 1944. Online version at the Internet Archive
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p326 London: Herbert Cox, 1908
- ^ Beds Archives
- ^ Curious Fox
- ^ 'NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS' Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (Portsmouth, England), Wednesday, 6 September 1871; Issue 4075. British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800–1900
- ^ London Gazette 31 January 1899
- ^ 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Saturday, 15 August 1874; pg. 3; Issue 15616. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
- ^ National Library of New Zealand
- ^ Malta Family History
- ^ Court Circular. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 26 May 1891; pg. 9; Issue 33334
- ^ Aberdeen Press & Journal Aberdeenshire, Scotland 9 March 1896
- ^ London Gazette 10 March 1896
- ^ 'MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN THE HON. E. DAWSON AND LADY ELIZABETH MEADE' The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, 28 April 1898; pg. 7; Issue 39280. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
- ^ "The Genealogical Magazine" Volume IV p272 (May 1900 to April 1901) London Elliot Stock, 1901
- ^ Ecton Village
- ^ 'Crown Office' The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, 12 September 1900; pg. 8; Issue 23779. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800–1900
- ^ London Gazette 1 September 1908
- ^ 14 St David's Road . Kelly's Directory Portsmouth/ Southsea: 1922
- ^ The Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 30 March 1926; pg. 19; Issue 44233
