Family and Early Life
Cox was born in Harwood Hall, Herongate, Essex, the son of Arthur Zachariah and Julienne Emily Cox. He was educated initially at Harrow School where he developed interests in natural history, geography, and travel. In February 1884 the bookish Cox, being his father's third son and therefore without significant inheritance, joined the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as Lieutenant in the Cameronians in February 1884, joining their 2nd Battalion in India. In November 1889 he transferred to the Bengal Staff Corps. On 14 November 1889 he married the later known as Dame Belle Cox, later promoted to be a D.B.E., née Louisa Belle Hamilton, daughter of Irish born Surgeon-General Sir John Butler Hamilton, (1838 - 1902).
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