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7 unusual facts about William Coxe


Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir R. Walpole (4 vols., London, 1816);

Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers

William Coxe, Memoirs of Marlborough (3 vols., London, 1818);

Thomas Tudor

Thomas and John Tudor's help together with their father's assistance in creating sketches and diagrams for his book Historical Tour in Monmouthshire was acknowledged by Archdeacon William Coxe.

William Coxe

He also edited Gay's Fables, and wrote a Life of John Gay (Salisbury, 1797), Anecdotes of G. F. Handel and J. C. Smith (London, 1798), and a few other works of minor importance.

The son of Dr. William Coxe, physician to the Royal Household, he was born in London.

After his father's death his mother Martha married John Christopher Smith, who was Handel's amanuensis.

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816), and of Henry Pelham (1829)


Bemerton

William Coxe (1748–1828), rector of Fugglestone with Bemerton from 1788 to 1828, wrote travel books, biographies of Sir Robert Walpole and others, and a history of the county of Montgomery.


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