Cox baronets

Richard Cox, ancestor of the Cox Baronets of Dunmanway

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cox, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both creations are extinct.

The Cox Baronetcy, of Dunmanway in the County of Cork, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 21 November 1706 for Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The second Baronet represented Clonakilty in the Irish House of Commons. The title presumably became extinct on the death of the 12th Baronet in 1873. There were claimants to the title, including most notably the historian and Church of England clergyman, George William Cox, Edmund Charles Cox and Captain John Hawtrey Reginald Cox, although these were finally rejected by the Privy council in 1911 and again in 1915.^[1][2] Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, was the great-great-grandfather of the first Baronet.^[3]

The Cox Baronetcy, of Old Windsor in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 22 January 1921 for the banker Reginald Cox. The title became extinct on his death in 1922.^[4]

Cox baronets, of Dunmanway (1706)

• Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet (1650–1733)
• Sir Richard Cox, 2nd Baronet (1702–1766)
• Sir Michael Cox, 3rd Baronet (c. 1730–1772)
• Sir Richard Eyre Cox, 4th Baronet (c. 1765–1783)
• Sir Richard Cox, 5th Baronet (1769–1786)
• Sir John Cox, 6th Baronet (1771–1832)
• Sir George Matthias Cox, 7th Baronet (1777–1838)
• Sir Richard Cox, 8th Baronet (died 1846)
• Sir Francis Cox, 9th Baronet (1769–1856)
• Sir Ralph Hawtrey Cox, 10th Baronet (1808–1872)
• Sir Michael Cox, 11th Baronet (1810–1872)
• Sir Francis Hawtrey Cox, 12th Baronet (c. 1816–1873)

Cox baronets, of Old Windsor (1921)

• Sir Reginald Henry Cox, 1st Baronet (c. 1865–1922)

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