George William Cox
George William Cox was a British historian. He is known for resolving the several myths of Greece and the world into idealisations of solar phenomena. The French poet Stphane Mallarm has translated some of his works under the title of Les dieux antiques .
He was born at Benares onJanuary 1827. He was the eldest son of the six children of Captain George Hamilton Cox , of the East India Companys service, and Eliza Kearton, daughter of John Horne, planter, of St. Vincent in the West Indies. A brother, Colonel Edmund Henry Cox of the royal marine artillery, fired the first shot against Sevastopol in the Crimean war.
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