John Charles Cox

John Charles Cox (1843–1919) was an English cleric, activist and local historian.^[1]

Life

He was born in Parwich, Derbyshire, the son of Edward Cox, vicar of Lincombe, Somerset, and was educated at Repton School.^[2] He studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, for two years from 1862, but left without graduating, becoming a partner in the Wingerworth Coal Company, Derbyshire. He remained with the company to 1885, but was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1881.^[1]

As rector of Barton-le-Street from 1886, and of Holdenby from 1893, Cox made a reputation as a local historian, an area he had written on from the 1870s. From 1900 he was in Sydenham, and concentrated on writing. He died on 23 February 1919.^[1]

Works

• The Rise of the Farm Labourer: A Series of Articles ... Illustrative of Certain Political Aspects of the Agricultural Labour Movement (1874)^[3] with Henry Fisher Cox
• Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, 4 vols., 1877–9
• How to Write the History of a Parish (1879)^[4]
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (Joseph Strutt, 1801), editor, 1903^[5]
• The Royal Forests of England (1905)^[6]
• English Church Furniture (1908), with Alfred Harvey^[7]
• The Parish Registers of England (1910)^[8]
• The Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers of Medieval England (1911)^[9]
• The Parish Churches of England; edited with additional chapters by Charles Bradley Ford. London: B. T. Batsford, 1935 (followed by later editions)

Notes

1. Nurse, Bernard. "Cox, John Charles". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41055. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Elizabeth T. Hurren (18 June 2015). Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-86193-329-7.
3. The Rise of the Farm Labourer: a Series of Articles ... Illustrative of Certain Political Aspects of the Agricultural Labour Movement. 1874.
4. John Charles Cox (1879). How to Write the History of a Parish. Bemrose & Sons.
5. Joseph Strutt (1801). The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: From the Earliest Period, Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Pageants, Processions and Pompous Spectacles. Methuen & Company.
6. J Charles Cox (10 September 2010). The Royal Forests of England (1905). Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-164-10460-5.
7. John Charles Cox; Alfred Harvey (1908). English Church Furniture. Methuen.
8. J. Charles Cox (1910). The Parish Registers of England. Methuen.
9. John Charles Cox (1911). The Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers of Mediaeval England. G. Allen & sons.