Anna COX Mary COX Sarah COX Eliza COX Charlotte COX Anna POTT Mini tree diagram

Samuel Compton COX

approx. 1758 - 25th Mar 18396,7,8

Life History

approx. 1758

Born

Date calculated from age at death

Jul 1787

Married Anna POTT in St George Hanover Square.11,12

From Pallot's Marriage Index :-
Anna Pott & Samuel Compton Cox (of Lincoln's Inn)
Wit : Percivall Pott & Edward Holden Pott
Lic.

From the European Magazine :-
"Samuel Compton Cox, Esq. of Lincoln's-Inn to Miss Pott, daughter of Percival Pott, Esq. of Hanover-square"

1st Nov 1787

Mentioned in Will.1

of Percivall Pott
Described as :-
"my son-in-law Samuel Compton Cox and my daughter Anna his wife"

25th Mar 1791

Mentioned in Will.2

of Percivall Pott
Described as :-
"Samuel Compton Cox"

14th Apr 1796

Executor.2

of the estate of Robert Pott
Joint Executors :-
"Edward Holden Pott Esquire the brother"
"Samuel Compton Cox"
"John Ravel Frye"
"Sarah Pott the relic of the deceased"

10th Jul 1799

Executor.3

of the estate of James Ravel Frye
Joint Executors .-
Mary Frye and Sarah Frye spinsters the daughters
Samuel Compton Cox Esquire
William Baker Esquire

15th Sep 1817

Mentioned in Will.4

of Sir James Earle
Described as .-
"Samuel Compton Cox Esquire"

Oct 1829

Death of Anna POTT.9,10

1st Jul 1831

Wrote will.5

"1) This is the last will and testament
2) of me Samuel Compton Cox of the Foundling Hospital Esquire late
3) one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery ... ..."

Some names mentioned :-
1) "my son in law Charles Pott"
2) "Edward Thomas Munro"
3) "William Loftus Lowndes"
4) "Edward Leigh Pemberton"
5) "my daughter Anna Pott"
6) "my daughter Mary Cox"
7) "my daughter Sarah Munro"
8) "my daughter Eliza Lowndes"
9) "my daughter Charlotte Pemberton"

25th Mar 1839

Died in Pancras (Foundling Hospital).6,7,8

From the Gentleman's Magazine :-
"At the Foundling Hospital, aged 81, Samuel Compton Cox, esq. Treasurer of that institution, late one of the masters of the High Court of Chancery and previously a Welsh judge. He was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his bachelor's degree as 11th Wrangler in 1779; obtained the second Member' prize in the following year; and proceeded M.A. 1781. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn June 26, 1781. He was appointed April 9, 1803, Lieut.-Colonel Commandant of the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Association"

From the Berkshire Chronicle :-
"March 25, in the 82d year of his age, Samuel Compton Cox, Esq., late one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery"

17th Apr 1839

Probate in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.5

Executors :-
Charles Pott Esquire
Edward Thomas Monro (in the will written Munro) Esquire Doctor of Medicine
William Loftus Lowndes Esquire
Edward Leigh Pemberton Esquire

Other facts

 

Birth of daughter Anna COX

 

Birth of daughter Mary COX

 

Birth of daughter Sarah COX

 

Birth of daughter Eliza COX

 

Birth of daughter Charlotte COX

Sources

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