(7 March 1783-5 Sept. 1853), clergyman. Born at Leighton Buzzard, England. His education included study at the University of Edinburgh. He became a Baptist minister, holding pastorates from 1805, and was Baptist pastor of Hackney, Eng., from 1811 till his death. He visited the United States and Canada as representative of the Baptist Union. With the Rev. J. Hoby, he wrote The Baptists in America: a Narrative of the Deputation from the Baptist Union in England to the United States and Canada, 1st and 2nd editions, 1836. This work contains Cox’s valuable description of his visit in 1835 to Breadalbane and Alexandria, with some notice also of Glenelg (Kirk Hill) and Lancaster. His co-author Hoby did not accompany him in the visit, and the narrative of the visit is Cox’s alone. The book contains the engraving of a somewhat rough or at least very basic sketch showing a settler’s cabin in a half-cleared forest, entitled “Breadalbane in Glengary,” probably the earliest published illustration of a Glengarry scene. The Glengarry News of 2 Aug. 2006 reproduced an old charcoal or pencil on-canvas sketch, signed by A. G. Cross, of what is recognizably but not exactly the same scene. The intriguing puzzle of the relationship of this sketch to the 1836 volume apparently remains to be solved. Cox died at South Hackney, England.

Life of Cox in DNB & ODict * Cox and Hoby, The Baptists in America * MacGillivray & Ross 69-73, where a sizeable extract from the GC passage from The Baptists in America is printed and the illustration is reproduced * Thomas 349