Rev Richard COX

Abt 1500 - 1581  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Richard COX
  Prefix	Rev
  Born	Abt 1500	Whaddon, Wiltshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Clergy	Y
  Occupation	Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely
  Religion	Anglican
  Died	22 Jul 1581	Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
  Person ID	I43401	Main
  Last Modified	2 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	John COOKE,   b. Abt 1473, Whaddon, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 1571, Whaddon, Wiltshire, England  (Age ~ 98 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1452, Gidea Hall, Essex, England ,   d. 1517, Gidea Hall, Essex, England  (Age ~ 65 years)
  Married	1498	London, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F30580	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane AUDER,   b. 1504, Pembrook Hall, Cambridgeshire, England ,   d. 1550, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England  (Age 46 years)
  Children	1. Sir Isaac COX,   b. Abt 1590, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1695, London, Middlesex, England  (Age ~ 105 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2017
  Family ID	F30579	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Cox was born of obscure parentage. —— Cox died in July 1581; a monument erected to his memory twenty years later in Ely cathedral was defaced, owing, it was said, to his evil repute. Strype (Whitgift, i. 2) gives Cox's hot temper and marriage as reasons why he was not made archbishop in 1583 in preference to Whitgift, who had been his chaplain; but Cox had been dead two years in 1583. His first wife's name is unknown; she was the mother of his five children, of whom Joanna married the eldest s/o Archbishop Parker. His second wife was Jane Auder, the widow of William Turner, the botanist and Dean of Wells Cathedral. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cox_(bishop)#Death.2C_legacy.2C_reputation.