Coxe, WILLIAM

Coxe, WILLIAM, historical writer, was born in London, 7th March 1747, and from Eton passed to King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1768. As tutor to the sons of four persons of quality, he spent much of twenty years on the Continent, where he neglected no opportunity of collecting information about the countries which he visited. The result appeared in fourteen works of travel and history, careful but dull, the best known being his History of the House of Austria (1807). He died, a prebendary of Salisbury and Archdeacon of Wilts, at Bemerton rectory, 16th June 1828.