George Bernard Cox


Major George Bernard Cox FRIBA was a British architect and co-founder with Arthur Harrison of Harrison and Cox. He primarily designed Roman Catholic churches.

Life

He was born on 31 July 1886 in Birmingham, the son of George Henry Cox and Mary Elizabeth Cox. He married Mary Hopwood, eldest daughter of T.W. Hopwood of Lea Hall, Handsworth on 1 July 1914 in St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Their son, Lieutenant Christopher P.B. Cox, R.A. was killed in action in Burma in 1944 aged 23.
From the Artists Rifles O.T.C. he became a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment on 5 September 1916 and then the Corps of Royal Engineers in November 1917. He also served in the Second World War.
He formed a partnership with Arthur Harrison sometime in the first decade of the 20th century, and this partnership survived until Arthur Harrison's death in 1922. The business continued under the name Harrison & Cox.
He retired in 1967 aged 80 and died on 20 October 1978 at Huntspill, The Parks, Minehead and left an estate valued at £262,772.

List of works

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