Dr. N G Cox.

[J.R.]

I notice in the 'Legacies' section of Spring 2007 'Housey', a legacy from Nick Cox, ex Col. B.

I was his swab for a year and wondered if he has passed on and I hadn't noticed.

Anyone got any information.

[Mid A 15]

I notice in the 'Legacies' section of Spring 2007 'Housey', a legacy from Nick Cox, ex Col. B.

I was his swab for a year and wondered if he has passed on and I hadn't noticed.

Anyone got any information.

There was an obituary of a Cox who died in his sixties in a recent Old Blue (or Blue). I remember the name because one or more of his relatives were county cricketers. He worked at the Public Record Office in Kew I believe and was very well respected for knowing his way around the records.

I'm due a visit there as part of my family history research so it is a shame he is not still around.

http://www.chassociation.org/oldblues/b ... s&letter=C

Scroll down.

[Doctor Smellcroft]

That obituary is a condensed version of this one, which appeared in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/st ... 49,00.html

[J.R.]

Thanks Guys !

Yes that's DEFINITELY the Nick I remember so well.

This section of the obit sums him up completely:

"With a slightly donnish air and misleading appearance of being permanently distracted, he helped journalists, civil servants and younger colleagues at Kew through what sometimes seemed to be labyrinthine and arbitrary rules about what documents could be released when, and why."