Cox, John (2)

an English Baptist minister, was born at Lambourn, Berkshire, May 5, 1802, He was converted early in life, entered the ministry soon after he was twenty-one years of age, and during his long career was pastor successively of churches in Reading, Woolwich, and Ipswich, in all of which places he was held in deservedly high esteem as a godly, faithful, and laborious minister of the gospel. He spent his last years in occasional preaching, chiefly in a small chapel near his residence at Foots Cray, in Kent. He died March 17, 1878. He wrote books, pamphlets, and articles for the press in great numbers. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1880, page 293.