Paige Cox

William Lang Paige Cox was Archdeacon of Chester from 1914 until his death in 1934.[1]

Memorial to William Lang Paige Cox in Chester Cathedral

Born on 6 September 1855 he was educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained Deacon in 1878; and Priest in 1879. After a curacy in Teynham he was Vicar of Rock Ferry[2] from 1882 to 1904. He married Edith Margaret Charley on 6 May 1884.[3] He was Rural Dean of Birkenhead from 1895 to 1901; Chester Diocesan Lecturer in Divinity for 1907; Vicar of Alderley Edge from 1904 to 1913; then Hoylake from 1913 to 1917; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Chester from 1914; an Honorary Canon of Chester Cathedral from 1904 to 1914 (he was a Residentiary Canon from 1917); and Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1927.[4]

A published author [5] he died on 14 March 1934.[6]

Notes
  1. ‘COX, Ven. William Lang Paige’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 March 2013
  2. Geograph
  3. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries Cheshire Observer (Chester, England), Saturday, 10 May 1884; pg. 5; Issue 1657.
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 London: Oxford University Press, p 284
  5. Amongst others he wrote "The Church of England as Catholic and Reformed", 1910; "Christian Ethics and Peace Problems", 1919; "The Word and Sacraments"; "Anglican Essays", 1923; and "The Heavenly Priesthood of Our Lord; Reaction and Progress in Religion", 1926; > British Library web site accessed 20:45 GMT Sunday 24 March 2013
  6. Archdeacon Paige Cox The Times (London, England), Thursday, 15 Mar 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46703
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Edward Barber		 Archdeacon of Chester
1914–1934		 Succeeded by
Norman Henry Tubbs
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