title: John Cox-Edwards
text: # John Cox-Edwards
  
  John Cox Cox-Edwards (1839–1926) was a Church of England priest and chaplain in the Royal Navy who rose to be Chaplain of the Fleet from 1888 to 1899.
  
  Harbord was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge He was ordained deacon in 1863; and priest in 1864. After curacies in Hinckley, Colmworth and Bolnhurst he was with the Royal Navy from 1871 to 1899. He served in China, Ireland, Australia and Egypt before coming back to England as Head of the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service and inspector of Naval Schools. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1896 until 1901. He was then Rector of Ecton from 1900 to 1908.
  
  In retirement he lived in Southsea and died there on 25 March 1926.
  
  ## 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
  