Richard Charles Coxe (1800–1865) was an English churchman and author,

archdeacon of Lindisfarne The Archdeacon of Lindisfarne is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Newcastle of the Church of England. History The archdeaconry was formed by Order in Council on 2 September 1842 from part of the Diocese of Durham archdeaconry of ...

from 1853.

Life

He was half-brother to

Henry Octavius Coxe Henry Octavius Coxe (20 September 1811 in Bucklebury, Berkshire, England – 8 July 1881 in Oxford) was an English librarian and scholar. The eighth son of Rev. Richard Coxe and Susan Smith, he was educated at Westminster School and Worcester ...

, was educated at

Norwich Grammar School Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a selective English independent day school in the close of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. Among the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, it has a traceable history to 1096 as a ...

, and was elected scholar of

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...

, in 1818, where he graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1824. He was ordained deacon in 1823, and priest in the following year. After for some time acting as chaplain of Archbishop Tenison's chapel,

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, London, he obtained in 1841 the vicarage of

Newcastle-on-Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne ( RP: , ), or simply Newcastle, is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. The city is located on the River Tyne's northern bank and forms the largest part of the Tyneside built-up area. Newcastle is als ...

. In 1843 Coxe was appointed honorary canon of

Durham Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, commonly known as Durham Cathedral and home of the Shrine of St Cuthbert, is a cathedral in the city of Durham, County Durham, England. It is the seat of t ...

. From 1845 till he left Newcastle he received an annual supplement of five hundred guineas to his income, subscribed by his parishioners. In 1853 he obtained the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne with the vicarage of

Eglingham Eglingham is a village in Northumberland, England, situated about north-west of Alnwick and from Wooler. It lies in the sheltered valley of the Eglingham Burn, a tributary of the River Aln, about above sea level, in a rural conservation area ...

, Northumberland, annexed; and in 1857 he was appointed canon of Durham. He died at Eglingham vicarage, 25 August 1865. Coxe was a strenuous opponent of

latitudinarianism Latitudinarians, or latitude men, were initially a group of 17th-century English theologiansclerics and academicsfrom the University of Cambridge who were moderate Anglicans (members of the Church of England). In particular, they believed that a ...

in doctrine and practice, and upheld the rights and privileges of the clergy.

Works

Besides individual sermons and addresses Coxe was the author of the following theological works: * ''Lectures on the Evidences from Miracles'', 1832; * ''Practical Sermons'', 1836; * ''Death disarmed of its Sting'', 1836; * ''The Symmetry of Revelation a Witness to the Divinity of Christ'', 1845; and * ''Remorse: Remorse for Intellectual and Literary Offences: Retribution'', 1864. He also published: * ''Six Ballads'', 1842; * ''The Mercy at Marsdon Rocks'', 1844; * ''Poems, Scriptural, Classical, Miscellaneous'', 1845; * ''The Snow Shroud, or the Lost Bairn o' Biddlestone Edge'', 1845; * ''Leda Tanah, the Martyr's Child; Derwent Bank'', 1851; * ''Woodnotes'' (the ''Silvitudia'' of Casimir Surbievius, with a translation in English verse); ''Musings at Tynemouth'', ten sonnets; ''North and South'', ten sonnets, 1848; and * ''Ballads from the Portuguese'' in the second part of John Adamson's ''Lusitania Illustrata''.

Family

Coxe married Louisa, daughter of Rev. J. Maule of Dover, and left a daughter and two sons.

References

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