Sir Charles Cox (1660–1729) was an English brewer and Whig Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1695 to 1712.
Soon there were nearly fourteen hundred, and the residents of Southwark gave a petition to Parliament to have them removed.
[1] When the Duke of Marlborough returned to the United Kingdom shortly after the death of Queen Anne in 1714, Sir Charles led the procession into London on 16 August [O.S.
[2] Not long afterwards a fire in his warehouses lost him thousands of pounds.
In 1734 the case of Lady Cox was heard and it was put on record that he had been a bigamist.