Cox Edghill

{{Short description|British priest and military chaplain}}

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John Cox Edghill was a British Anglican priest and military chaplain. He was senior chaplain at Aldershot from 1861, then followed chaplain to the forces at Chatham, Halifax (Nova Scotia), again at Aldershot, Gibraltar, and, finally, at Portsmouth (1881–1885), and then Chaplain-General to Her Majesty's Forces (1885–1901).{{London Gazette |issue=27379 |date=22 November 1901 |page=7653 }}{{cite news | title = The London Gazette, Friday, November 22. Admiralty, Nov. 18., Royal Marine L.I. | work = The Times | location = London | page = 13; col C | date = 23 November 1901|issue=36620 }} He was also Chaplain of the Tower of London until he resigned in October 1902.{{London Gazette |issue=27482|date=14 October 1902|page=6496}} Following his retirement, he held the position of Prebendary of Wells, which he held until his death.{{cite news | title = The Rev. J. Cox Edghill. D.D. (transcript) | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1917/Obituary/John_Cox_Edghill | work = The Times | location = London | page = 9; col E | date = 28 November 1917|issue=41647 | accessdate = 18 October 2008 }}

As a noted Tractarian and Anglo-Catholic, he was the first choice to replace Hibbert Binney as the bishop of Nova Scotia by the Synod of the diocese, at Halifax, 6 June 1887. He declined his election in a letter to the Synod.{{cite book | title = Letter from Rev. J.C. Edghill, D.D., Chaplain-general, to the Synod of Nova | year = 1887 | isbn = 0-665-06881-6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NhF3AAAACAAJ }}{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XI |author1=George W. Brown |author2=David M. Hayne |author3=Francess G. Halpenny | title = Hibbert Binney | pages = 76 | year = 1966 | publisher = University of Toronto Press | isbn = 0-8020-3367-9 }}

He was an Honorary Chaplain to King Edward VII.

He had a daughter, Ella Mary Edghill, with Mary Nesfield{{cite book | title = Newnham College Register, 1871-1950 | page = 180 | year = 1964 }} (d. 24 September 1922, Weston-super-Mare).{{cite news | title = Deaths | work = The Times | location = London | page = 1; col A | date = 28 September 1922|issue=43148 }}

The Museum of Army Chaplaincy holds further information on the life on Edghill.