Richard Charles Coxe (25 July 1800–25 August 1865) was an English churchman and author,
archdeacon of Lindisfarne
The Archdeacon of Lindisfarne is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the diocese of Newcastle of the Church of England.
History
The archdeaconry was formed by Order in Council on 2 September 1842 from part of the Diocese of Durham archdeaconry of ...
from 1853.
Life
He was half-brother to
Henry Octavius Coxe,
was educated at
Norwich Grammar School
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, and was elected scholar of
Worcester College, Oxford
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, in 1818, where he graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1824. He was ordained deacon in 1823, and priest in the following year. After for some time acting as chaplain of Archbishop Tenison's chapel,
Regent Street
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, London, he obtained in 1841 the vicarage of
Newcastle-on-Tyne
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.
In 1843 Coxe was appointed honorary canon of
Durham Cathedral
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. From 1845 till he left Newcastle he received an annual supplement of five hundred guineas to his income, subscribed by his parishioners. In 1853 he obtained the
archdeaconry of Lindisfarne with the vicarage of
Eglingham
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, Northumberland, annexed; and in 1857 he was appointed canon of Durham. He died at Eglingham vicarage, 25 August 1865. Coxe was a strenuous opponent of
latitudinarianism
Latitudinarians, or latitude men, were initially a group of 17th-century English theologiansclerics and academicsfrom the University of Cambridge who were moderate Anglicans (members of the Church of England). In particular, they believed that a ...
in doctrine and practice, and upheld the rights and privileges of the clergy.
Works
Besides individual sermons and addresses Coxe was the author of the following theological works:
* ''Lectures on the Evidences from Miracles'', 1832;
* ''Practical Sermons'', 1836;
* ''Death disarmed of its Sting'', 1836;
* ''The Symmetry of Revelation a Witness to the Divinity of Christ'', 1845; and
* ''Remorse: Remorse for Intellectual and Literary Offences: Retribution'', 1864.
He also published:
* ''Six Ballads'', 1842;
* ''The Mercy at Marsdon Rocks'', 1844;
* ''Poems, Scriptural, Classical, Miscellaneous'', 1845;
* ''The Snow Shroud, or the Lost Bairn o' Biddlestone Edge'', 1845;
* ''Leda Tanah, the Martyr's Child; Derwent Bank'', 1851;
* ''Woodnotes'' (the ''Silvitudia'' of
Casimir Surbievius, with a translation in English verse); ''Musings at Tynemouth'', ten sonnets; ''North and South'', ten sonnets, 1848; and
* ''Ballads from the Portuguese'' in the second part of
John Adamson's ''Lusitania Illustrata''.
Family
Coxe married Louisa, daughter of Rev. J. Maule of Dover, and left a daughter and two sons.
References
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Notes
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1800 births
1865 deaths
Archdeacons of Lindisfarne
English theologians
People educated at Norwich School
English male poets
19th-century English poets
19th-century English male writers
18th-century Anglican theologians
19th-century Anglican theologians