RICHARD, a learned English prelate, born at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, in 1499. He was educated at Eton, and afterwards at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1519. He was invited to Oxford by Cardinal Wolsey; but having imbibed the reformed opinions, he was stripped of his preferment, and thrown into prison. On his release, however, he was chosen master of Eton school, and in 1541 he was appointed prebendary of Ely cathedral. Through the influence of Cranmer he was chosen tutor to Prince Edward; and on the accession of that prince he was sworn of the privy-council, and made king's almoner. On the accession of Mary he was again stripped of his preferments, and committed to the Marshalsea. He escaped however to Strasburg, where he resided with Peter Martyr. Under Elizabeth he was elevated to the see of Ely, and died July 22, 1581. Cox was a man of considerable learning, but equally violent in the measures which he recommended for the extirpation of popery and dissent. He wrote Two Latin Orations on the Dispute between Dr Tresham and Peter Martyr, Lond. 1549, 4to. Translation of the Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistle to the Romans, in the Bishops' Bible. Resolutions of some Questions concerning the Sacrament, in the Collection of Records at the end of Burnet's History of the Reformation; and had also a considerable share in compiling and revising the liturgy.