Cox

(the Right Rev. Sir George William), b. 1827, was educated at Rugby and Oxford, where he took B.C.L. in 1849. Entered the Church, but has devoted himself to history and mythology. His most pretentious work is Mythology of the Aryan Nations (1870). He has also written an Introduction to Comparative Mythology and several historical works. In 1886 he became Bishop of Bloemfontein. He is credited with the authorship of the English Life of Jesus , published under the name of Thomas Scott. At the Church Congre of 1888 he read an heretical paper on Biblical Eschatology. His last production is a Life of Bishop Colenso , 2 vols, 1888.