Henry Coxe
Deceased Person
1811 – 1881
Who was Henry Coxe?
Henry Octavius Coxe was an English librarian and scholar.
The eighth son of Rev. Richard Coxe and Susan Smith, he was educated at Westminster School and Worcester College, Oxford. Immediately on taking his degree in 1833, he began work in the manuscript department of the British Museum, became in 1838 sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and in 1860 succeeded Dr. Bulkeley Bandinel as head librarian, an office he held until his death in 1881.
Having proved himself an able palaeographer, he was sent out by the British government under Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston to inspect the libraries in the monasteries of the Levant in 1857. He discovered some valuable manuscripts, but the monks were too wise to part with their treasures. One valuable result of his travels was the detection of the forgery attempted by Constantine Simonides. He was the author of various catalogues, and under his direction that of the Bodleian, in more than 720 volumes, was completed. He published Rogri de Wendover Chronica, 5 vols.; the Black Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald; and Report on the Greek Manuscripts yet remaining in the Libraries of the Levant.
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- Born
- Sep 20, 1811
Bucklebury - Education
- Worcester College, Oxford
- Westminster School
- Employment
- Bodley's Librarian
- Lived in
- Bucklebury
- Died
- Jul 8, 1881
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on July 23, 2013
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