made a deeper impression on the Oriental mind." Cox, for his part, returns the high regard, referring to Bell's "indefatigable assistance". He continued...to the greater degree to which Gertrude enjoyed my confidence and I her devoted co-operation, a co-operation which I know from my successor she rendered with the same singleness of purpose for him - Sir Henry Dobbs that is. Marriage and children Lady Cox (Louisa Belle Cox, née Hamilton) was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1923 Birthday Honours. The couple's only son, Derek, was killed in action in 1917. and their only daughter died at birth. Their son, however, left a son, providing them a grandson, their only grandchild. Retirement and death After Cox's departure from Baghdad, he was never again employed in any official position by the British government, but served as a delegate to several conferences. Cox devoted much of the rest of his life to the Royal Geographical Society, serving as its president from 1933 to 1936. Sir Percy Cox died suddenly while out hunting at Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, in 1937. He apparently felt ill and dismounted, collapsing on the road beside his horse; by the time he was found by another huntsman, Lord Luke, he was already dead. The coroner recorded a verdict of heart failure. See also Iraqi revolt against the British British Mandate of Mesopotamia Faisal I of Iraq Anglo-Iraqi Treaty Bibliography Manuscripts Sir Percy Z Cox Papers, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford WO158: Military HQ, correspondence and papers, World War I, TNA. BL OLOC, - IOR N/1/210, p. 177 RGS, travel journals in Somaliland (1894, 1898–99) and Persian Gulf BL, correspondence with Sir Arnold L Wilson Add MS 52455 CUL, correspondence with Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, MEC, St Antony's College, Oxford CUL, correspondence with St John Philby, MEC, St Antony's College, Oxford CGPLA, England & Wales Glossary BL - British Library, St Pancras, London BL Add MS - Additional Manuscript collection of the British Library CGPLA - Court of Grant of Probate Law and Administration CUL - Catalogue for University Library MEC - Middle Eastern Centre OLOC - Organization for Library Order Catalogues RGS - Royal Geographical Society TNA - The National Archives, Kew, London WO - (British) War Office Notes References Sources Further reading Walford's County Families (1898) External links Are the British to blame for Saud Arabi? "History, Britain, Iran