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  1. William Coxe (c. 1710–60) William Coxe FRS (17 March [ O.S. 6 March] 1748 – 8 June 1828) was an English historian and priest who served as a travelling companion and tutor to nobility from 1771 to 1786. He wrote numerous historical works and travel chronicles. Ordained a deacon in 1771, he served as a rector and then archdeacon of Bemerton ...

  2. William Coxe, traveller, historian, and clergyman, was born 6 March 1747 in London, eldest son of Dr William Coxe (c.1710-60), physician to the Royal household, and Martha Coxe, née D’Aranda (1723-86). He attended Eton College from 1753 to 1765, and King’s College, Cambridge University in 1765, where he became a Fellow in 1768.

  3. William Coxe FRS (17 March [O.S. 6 March] 1748 – 8 June 1828) was an English historian and priest who served as a travelling companion and tutor to nobility from 1771 to 1786. He wrote numerous historical works and travel chronicles.

  4. William Coxe (1747-1828). Engraving by W. T. Fry, 1904, based on an original picture by Sir W. Beechey, RA, drawn by J. Jackson, in ‘A Historical Tour of Monmouthshire’ published by Davies and Co., 1904. William Coxe, canon of Salisbury cathedral from 1803, and archdeacon of Wiltshire from 1805, was a documentary historian rather than an ...

  5. William Coxe FRS was an English historian and priest who served as a travelling companion and tutor to nobility from 1771 to 1786. He wrote numerous historical works and travel chronicles. Ordained a deacon in 1771, he served as a rector and then archdeacon of Bemerton near Salisbury from 1786 until his death.

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    • June 8, 1828
    • March 6, 1748
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  8. The author, William Coxe, a historian and Church of England clergyman, who was born in London on 6 March 1748, travelled frequently during the period of 1775 – 1788. His first trip, with the future eleventh earl of Pembroke, took place from 1775-1779 and formed the basis of this particular travel journal.

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