(19 Sept. 1876-2 Dec. 1963), university teacher. (Eddie Cox, Edward G. Cox) Born in Ottawa, Ohio. Having been a student at Indiana schools, at Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind., A.B., 1899), and at Cornell University (M.A, 1901, Ph.D. 1906), Cox taught at the University of Washington, in Seattle, from 1911 till his retirement in 1947. He was the author of a number of scholarly books, and was managing editor of the Modern Language Quarterly from 1943 till his death. Though he gives the impression of having been rather austere in his youth, he was later a man who was noted to enjoy good food and drink. A student to the core of his being, he seems to have found scholarship throughout his long life to have been among his keenest pleasures. He also became a dedicated yachtsman. He had a great interest in and devotion to Scottish life and customs, and is said to have learned not only to read but to speak Gaelic. His connection with GC history is that during the months of July and August 1904, which he spent at Dunvegan studying Gaelic, he kept a brief but valuable diary of his activities and observations, now preserved in the archives of the University of Washington. Still young at the time of the visit to Dunvegan, he was or recently had been a lecturer in English at Cornell University. His Dunvegan diary must be valued all the more because it belongs to a time from which we have virtually no other observations by outsiders of life in the Dunvegan area. Edward G. Cox died in Seattle. He was a Mason. He never married.

     At Dunvegan, he lived at the house of a Gaelic-speaking Mrs Nicholson. This was almost certainly Mrs Rory Nicholson (died 2 or 27 Nov. 1923, aged 85 or 86), née Catherine Lamont. Her husband, Roderick Nicholson, had died in 1870, aged only 32.

“The Dunvegan Diary of Edward G Cox,” a full text of the Dunvegan diary, ed. with notes by Royce MacGillivray, Glengarry Life No. 36 (1997), pp. 10 * information from Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), Cornell University, University of Washington * obituary and tribute (portrait), Modern Language Quarterly 25:1 (March 1964) * Glengarry News 15 July 1904, spending summer at Dunvegan studying Gaelic * Mrs Nicholson: Nicholson gravestones, Dunvegan cemetery; GN 21 Dec. 1923; Kenyon Church Report 1923