Arthur Cox

Who is Arthur Cox?

Arthur Henry Machell Cox was an English ornithologist.

Cox was born in Hazelwood, Derbyshire, England, on 11 November 1870. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, before working as a teacher and then headmaster at various schools in Devon. He contributed to ornithological research in Devon, was a founding member of the Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society in 1928 and from 1931 a member of the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society. He died in 1947, by which time he had moved to Somerset.