Adam Fox (1883–1977), Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford.
It gets its name from King Cole, legendary British father of the Roman Empress Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine.
[citation needed] He was one of the first members of the "Inklings", a literary group which also included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
Fox wished to make Plato well known among the English Classics once again and hoped that people would study the platonic dialogues, as well as the plays of Shakespeare.
His biography of William Ralph Inge, the theologian, philosopher and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, was awarded the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize soon after its publication.