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Samuel Compton Cox

Samuel Compton Cox (1757–1839) was a British barrister, judge and legal writer. He became a Master in Chancery in 1804.[1]

Samuel Compton Cox
M.A.
Engraved standing portrait of Samuel Compton Cox, in militia officer uniform
Portrait of Samuel Compton Cox from 1799, in militia officer uniform
Born1757[1]
Died1839[1]
Occupationbarrister

Life edit

He was the son of the barrister Samuel Cox.[1] He was educated at Westminster School, where he took part in the 1770 production of the Latin comedy Andria by Terence, playing the role of Mysis.[2][3]

Cox matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1774, graduating B.A. 1778, and becoming a Fellow of the college in 1779. He graduated M.A. in 1781. Meanwhile, he was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1775. He migrated to Lincoln's Inn in January 1781 and was called to the bar later that year.[1]

Made a commissioner of bankrupts in 1787, Cox held the position to 1798. That year, he became Second Justice of Carmarthen. In 1804 he instead took on the position of Master in chancery.[1] He was an active militia officer at this period, commanding the six companies of the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Volunteers.[4]

 
Militiaman of the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Volunteers, 1798 aquatint

Cox was treasurer of the Foundling Hospital from 1806 to 1839. He died there, on 25 March 1839. He has a memorial there, by John Graham Lough, representing a sarcophagus with foundlings. It is in the chapel, having formerly been over a door.[5][6][7] Cox was buried in the catacombs beneath the chapel.[8] A sermon for him by Josiah Forshall, the hospital's chaplain, was published in 1841.[9] Cox's library was sold at auction in London by R. H. Evans on 16 July 1839 (and three following days); a copy of the catalogue is held at Cambridge University Library (shelfmark Munby.c.145(10)).

Works edit

Cox added scholarly notes to the fourth edition (1787) and fifth edition (1793) of the equity case reports of William Peere Williams (1664–1736).[10] There was a sixth edition in 1826, with further notes by others (John Boscawen Monro, William Loftus Lowndes, and James Randall).[11]

  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench (1790, Dublin, 4th edition vol. II)[12]
  • Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench (1826, vol. II)[13]

The original work, in three volumes, was edited by William Peere Williams the younger, and appeared 1740–1744.[14]

"Cox Eq Cas" is a standard abbreviation for nominate reports, also known as "Cox's Equity Cases" or "Cox's Equity", or "Cox's Chancery Cases".[15][16] It refers to the two volumes of Cases Determined in the Courts of Equity: From 1783 to 1796 Inclusive (1816).[17]

Family edit

Cox married in 1787 Anne Pott, daughter of Percival Pott.[1] Of their children:

  • Anna, the eldest daughter, married Charles Pott of the Foundling Hospital.[18]
  • Charlotte married Edward Leigh Pemberton (1795–1877) of Torry Hill, and was mother of Edward Leigh Pemberton the politician.[19]
  • Sarah married in 1814 the physician Edward Thomas Monro (1789–1856).[20]
  • Eliza, fourth daughter, married in 1818 William Loftus Lowndes, son of Richard Lowndes of Dorking.[21]

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Cox, Samuel Compton (CS774SC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Andria (1770), APGRD". www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Westminster School (1863). Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses sive Prologi et epilogi ad fabulas in Sti. Petri collegio actas qui exstabant collecti et justa quoad licuit annorum serie ordinati, quibus accedit declamationum quæ vocantur et epigrammatum delectus, curantibus J. Mure, H. Bull, C.B. Scott (in Latin). Oxford: JH & J Parker et al. p. 109.
  4. ^ The Marquess of Cambridge (1962). ""Rowlandson's Loyal London Volunteers"". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 40 (161): 6. ISSN 0037-9700. JSTOR 44226332.
  5. ^ Survey of London. Vol. XXIV. London County Council. 1952. pp. 16–17.
  6. ^ Welch, Joseph (1852). The List of the Queen's Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster: Admitted on that Foundation Since 1633; and of Such as Have Been Thence Elected to Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, from the Foundation by Queen Elizabeth, 1561, to the Present Time. To which is Prefixed, a List of Deans of Westminster, and of Christ Church, Oxford; the Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge; and the Masters of Westminster School. G.W. Ginger. p. 401.
  7. ^ Survey of London. Vol. XXIV. London County Council. 1952.
  8. ^ Brownlow, John (1865). The History and Objects of the Foundling Hospital: With a Memoir of the Founder. C. Jaques. p. 83.
  9. ^ Forshall, Josiah (1841). A sermon [on Job. xix. 25-27] preached in the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital on the 7th April 1839; being the Sunday immediately succeeding the funeral of S. C. Cox., Esq., Treasurer to the Hospital, etc.
  10. ^ Yale, D. E. C. "Williams, William Peere (1664/5–1736)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29564. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ Inns of Court (London)-Middle Temple- Library (1877). Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of the Middle Temple, 1868-77, with an Index of Subjects.
  12. ^ Williams, William Peere (1790). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench. Vol. II. J. Moore.
  13. ^ Chancery, Great Britain Court of; Williams, William Peere (1826). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: And of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]. J. Butterworth and Son.
  14. ^ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1871). A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors living and deceased. p. 2752.
  15. ^ "Cox Eq Cas, Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms". legal-abbreviations.lawjournal.eu.
  16. ^ "Cox's Chancery Cases, 1783-96, 2v". llmc.com.
  17. ^ Cox, Samuel Compton (1816). Cases Determined in the Courts of Equity: From 1783 to 1796 Inclusive. With a Few of an Earlier Date by Lord Hardwicke and Lord Northington ... Vol. I. Reed & Hunter.
  18. ^ Burke, Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Рипол Классик. p. 1215. ISBN 978-5-88056-094-3.
  19. ^ Debrett's Illustrated Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ... Bosworth. 1865. p. 205.
  20. ^ Foster, Joseph (1882). The Peerage of the British Empire for 1882: With the Orders of Knighthood. Nichols. p. 451.
  21. ^ "Married". Saint James's Chronicle. 3 March 1818. p. 1.
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