Author: Coxe, Edward
Biography:
COXE, Edward (1748-1814: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 6 July 1748 and baptised on 3 Aug. at St. James’s, Piccadilly, Westminster, London, the son of William Coxe (1708-60), physician to the household of George II, and his second wife, the widow Mary Martha Lee (formerly D’Aranda), who had married in 1744. He entered Eton in 1754 and was King’s Scholar in 1760. He did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge but became a merchant in London. He married Anna Maria Fisher (1750-87) on 30 Nov. 1774 at St. Sepulchre, Holborn, Westminster. They had two sons. After her death in July 1787, he married Mary Sampson (1762-1832) on 12 Apr. 1788 at St. George the Martyr, Queen Square, Holborn, London. They had four daughters. He was a connoisseur of old master paintings, which he had collected for over thirty years. On 23 Apr. 1807, he sold many of them through his brother, the auctioneer Peter Coxe (q.v.), who issued a Catalogue Raisonné (1807). He died on 26 May 1814 at his house in Hampstead Heath. His brother William (1748-1828) was sometime archdeacon of Wiltshire and author of Travels in Switzerland (1801); Peter Coxe is noticed separately. The presentation copy of hisMiscellaneous Poetry (1805) at the Bodleian library (280.e.847 and Google Books) identifies some of the subjects of the occasional verse but is mostly noteworthy for the translations and imitations from Petrarch, Horace, and Martial; sonnets to other authors (Joanna Baillie, William Lisle Bowles, Reginald Heber qq.v.); and topographical poems on Brighton, Mount Edgecumbe, the river Dart, and “To Commemorate the Preservation of the Nine Elms, on Hampstead Heath.” (ancestry.co.uk 28 Sept. 2023; Sun 30 May 1814; GM June 1814, 628; English Chronicle 11 Dec. 1832) AA