him abundant material for The Life of Bishop John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal, which he published in 1888. In the same year he issued a very short vindication of Colenso's views as he understood them, in The Church of England and the Teaching of Bishop Colenso maintaining Colenso's loyalty to the church. (Bishop Colenso's teaching, however, is to be found rather in the Natal Sermons, the first two Series having been recently re-printed in facsimile. The third and fourth Series were published only in South Africa and unfortunately are extremely rare.) Cox's two-volume biography is the most valuable source for the life of Bishop Colenso because of the large number of letters from the Bishop that it contains. A new edition was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2011. The following year a facsimile edition was also published. (Other major sources include Letters from Natal, written by his scholarly wife.) His other works includes studies of mythology, and histories of the Greeks and Persians, the Crusades, the establishment of British India, and of England and the English people, as well as a book of "family prayer" based on Jeremy Taylor and other 17th century divines. He laid claim to the Irish baronetcy of Cox of Dunmanway, and styled himself with the honorific 'Sir'. However, after his death, the Privy Council rejected his son's claim to the baronetcy. In 1880, Cox was appointed Vicar of Bekesbourne by A. C. Tait, archbishop of Canterbury, and from 1881 to 1897, he was rector of the crown living of Scrayingham, Yorkshire. In 1886, he was chosen Bishop of Natal by the adherents of Colenso, but was refused consecration by Archbishop Benson owing to his election being unacceptable to the high church party. On 18 May 1896, he received a civil list pension of £120. He died at Ivy House, Walmer, on 9 February 1902. Published works 1853: The life of Saint Boniface, Archbishop of Mayence and Apostle of Germany. Joseph Masters. 1861: The Great Persian War 1861: Tales from Greek Mythology 1867: A Manual of Mythology. London: Longmans Green & Co. 1870: Latin and Teutonic Christendom. London: Longmans Green & Co. 1870: The Mythology of the Aryan Nations, 2 vols., later revised in a one-volume work, 1882 1874: The Crusades 1874: History of Greece, 2 vols. 1876: The Greeks and the Persians. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 1876: The Athenian