Paige Cox

William Lang Paige Cox was Archdeacon of Chester ^{[citation needed]} from 1914 until his death in 1934.^[1]

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^[2] from 1882 to 1904. He married Edith Margaret Charley on 6 May 1884.^[3] 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 (he was a Residentiary Canon from 1917); and Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1927.^[4]

A published author ^[5] he died on 14 March 1934.^[6]

Notes

^ ‘COX, Ven. William Lang Paige’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 March 2013
^ Geograph
^ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries Cheshire Observer (Chester, England), Saturday, 10 May 1884; pg. 5; Issue 1657.
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929 London: Oxford University Press, p 284
^ Amongst others he wrote "The Church of England as Catholic and Reformed", 1910; "Christian Ethics and Peace Problems", 1919; "The Word and Sacraments"; "Anglican Essays", 1923; and "The Heavenly Priesthood of Our Lord; Reaction and Progress in Religion", 1926; > British Library web site accessed 20:45 GMT Sunday 24 March 2013
^ Archdeacon Paige Cox The Times (London, England), Thursday, 15 Mar 1934; pg. 16; Issue 46703

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Barber	Archdeacon of Chester 1914–1934	Succeeded by Norman Henry Tubbs

v t e Archdeacons of Chester
Early Medieval	Halmar William Robert (I) Richard Peche Adam de Stafford William de Villars Robert (II) Hugh Thomas de Sancto Nicholao Ralph de Maidstone Silvester de Everdon Richard John Basing Simon de Albo Monasterio Adam de Stanford Jordan of Wimborne/de Wimburn Robert de Radewell
Late Medieval	Richard de Havering John de Ufford Michael Northburgh Pedro Cardinal Gòmez de Barroso William de Navesby Nicholas Slake John de Herlaston John Ganville William de Neuhagh Henry de Halsall David Price Richard Stanley John Burdet George Radclyf Sir Edward Stanley Thomas St Just Henry Ince John Morton James Stanley Christopher Talbot Edmund Chaderton, Archdeacon of Salisbury
Early modern	John Vesey Cuthbert Tunstall William Knight John Birde, Bishop of Chester Robert Perceval (twice) Robert Rogers Cuthbert Bellott George Snell John Carter William Finmore John Allen Edmund Entwisle John Thane Lewis Stephens William Powell Abel Ward George Taylor George Travis Thomas Breithweite
Late modern	Unwin Clarke Isaac Wood Edward Woolnough Richard Greenall William Pollock Edward Johnson John Darby Edward Barber Paige Cox Norman Tubbs Richard Burne Leslie Fisher Leslie Williams Michael Gear Geoffrey Turner Christopher Hewetson Donald Allister Michael Gilbertson

v t e Diocese of Chester
Chester Cathedral Bishop's House, Chester Church House, Chester St John's, Chester
Office holders	Mark Tanner, Bishop of Chester Julie Conalty, Bishop suffragan of Birkenhead Sam Corley, Bishop suffragan of Stockport AEO: Stephen Race, Bishop suffragan of Beverley & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Tim Stratford, Dean of Chester Michael Gilbertson, Archdeacon of Chester Jane Proudfoot, Archdeacon of Macclesfield
Historic offices	Archdeacon of Manchester Archdeacon of Liverpool

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