Paige Cox


William Lang Paige Cox was Archdeacon of Chester from 1914 until his death in 1934.
Born on 6 September 1855 he was educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained Deacon in 1878; and Priest in 1879. After a curacy in Teynham he was Vicar of Rock Ferry from 1882 to 1904. He married Edith Margaret Charley on 6 May 1884. He was Rural Dean of Birkenhead from 1895 to 1901; Chester Diocesan Lecturer in Divinity for 1907; Vicar of Alderley Edge from 1904 to 1913; then Hoylake from 1913 to 1917; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Chester from 1914; an Honorary Canon of Chester Cathedral from 1904 to 1914 ; and Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1927.
A published author he died on 14 March 1934.