John Coxe (c. 1695 – 27 Jan 1783) of Nether Lypiatt, Gloucestershire was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of

Charles Coxe Charles Coxe (c. 1661–17 October 1728), of Lincoln's Inn and Rodmarton and Lower Lypiatt, Gloucestershire, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons, English and British House of Commons between 1698 an ...

, lawyer and Member of Parliament and was educated at

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(1712) and then studied law at

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, where he was

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in 1718 and made a bencher in 1743. On the death of his father in 1728 he inherited the "manor" of Nether Lypiatt with the

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his father had built and the position of Clerk of the letters patent, a post he held until his own death. In 1749 he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in a by-election following the death of Thomas Master. He married sometime before 1728, Theodora, the daughter of Thomas Eyre of Huntercombe, Burnham, Buckinghamshire and had a son and heir.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coxe, John 1690s births 1783 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1747–1754 Politicians from Gloucestershire