Cox Edghill

Who was Cox Edghill?

Rev. John Cox Edghill DD was a British Anglican priest, senior chaplain at Aldershot from 1861, then followed chaplain to the forces at Chatham, Halifax, again at Aldershot, Gibraltar, and, finally, at Portsmouth, and then Chaplain-General to Her Majesty's Forces. Following his retirement, he undertook the position of Prebendary of Wells, which he held until his death.

As a noted Tractarian and Anglo-Catholic, he was the first choice to replace Hibbert Binney as the bishop of Nova Scotia by the Synod of the diocese, at Halifax, 6 June 1887. He declined his election in a letter to the Synod.

He was an Honorary Chaplain to King Edward VII.

He had a daughter, Ella Mary Edghill, with Mary Nesfield.

The Museum of Army Chaplaincy holds further information on the life on Edghill.