Author: Cox, George Duncombe
Biography:
COX, George Duncombe (1807-40: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Durham to Samuel Cox, a physician from Eaton Bishop, Herefordshire, and his wife Ann (former surname unknown). The family was Catholic and he was educated at a college in Boulogne-sur-Mer before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He earned his Doctor of Medicine on 1 Aug. 1836 with his inaugural dissertation on the function of the spleen. While in Edinburgh Cox had thoughts of founding a Catholic hospital; unable to raise the necessary funds, he abandoned the idea and established a Catholic periodical instead. The Phoenix was first published in Feb. 1840 but it soon met with competition from another new periodical, The Tablet. Cox seems, in any case, to have been suffering from ill-health and he left Edinburgh for his parents’ home in Eaton Bishop where he died on 31 Oct. 1840. (ancestry.co.uk 1 Mar. 2022; Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 46 [1836]; J. Gillow, A Literary and Biographical History [1885]) SR