A Captain who lived in Canterbury. He published a number of articles on Scolytus destructor Oliv. between 1848 and 1859. He must have been one of the first entomologists to take up the photography of insects publishing 'Notes on the application of photography to insects' in Proc.ESL., 1863, pp.179-181. He also published a popular work Our Common Insects First Steps to Entomology, 1864. Cox was also interested in Lepidoptera, publishing notes on larvae, including one with J.O.Westwood in 1864. Harvey et al.(1996) p.54 record that several manuscript chapters for an unpublished work titled Elementary Lectures upon Natural History, including several pen-and-ink drawings, are in the NHM. (MD 4/02)