Charles Cox (c. 1731 – 7 April 1808) was a prominent English businessman active in Harwich, Essex.
He was mayor of Harwich Corporation six times: 1778, 1784, 1789, 1793, 1798, and 1803.
[1][2] He was an agent for the Harwich packet boat.
[3] Cox had an enduring working relationship with John Cobbold (1746–1835) after the latter inherited the Cobbold family brewing business in 1767.
[4] He was interred in the family vault St Nicholas Church, Harwich, alongside his son, also Charles Cox, who had died age 5, and two grandchildren, Charles and Mary-Ann Cox, both children of his son Anthony Cox and Mary-Anne Cox.