Francis Augustus Cox

Francis Augustus Cox (1783–1853) was a prominent English Baptist minister. He began preaching in his teens,

In 1805 he was appointed minister in Clipston in Northamptonshire, before taking up a position at the St Andrew's Street Church in Cambridge which dates from 1764. However Cox resigned in 1808 and returned to Clipston.

When the University of London was founded in 1828, he was prevented from being on its committee because he was a minister. However he was made the librarian at the University for a short while.

Cox received an LLD degree from the University of Glasgow through his friendship with Lord Brougham

Two years later, Cox attended the 1840 British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society convention in London and he was included in the painting which is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Cox died in 1858 in Hackney, having been married three times and fathering seven children. His body of published work was immense.