Son of an army agent, Charles Cox left Eton College and joined the Colonial Office
as a probationer (4th class) in
1829.
From 1841 to 1851 he served as private secretary to three parliamentary
under-secretaries as well as commissioner for New Zealand Company affairs.
In 1860 he was appointed senior clerk in charge of the Australian and Eastern
Departments.
He became chief clerk in 1872, was knighted in 1877, and retired
in 1879.
- 1. D. M. Young, The Colonial Office in the Early Nineteenth Century (London: Royal Commonwealth Society, 1961), 96, 98, 126.
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- 2. William C. Sargeaunt & Arthur N. Birch, The Colonial Office List [1862] (London: Edward Stanford, 1862), 124.
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- 3. Ibid., 3.
- 4. Edward Fairfield, The Colonial Office List [1881] (London: Harrison, 1881), 338-9. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t6p07w439; The Order of St. Micheal and St. George, Army and Navy Gazette, 2 June 1877, 343.
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