Sir Herbert Charles Fahie Cox (1893 – 21 September 1973) was a British lawyer who served in various positions in the colonial legal service, including chief justice of Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and Bechuanaland.
[1] Cox joined the colonial legal service, and in 1913 was appointed acting sub-inspector of police in British Guiana.
He presented a bill to the Legislative Council under which a free permit would be granted to every firearm owner "considered [a] proper person."
[6] On 4 February 1946 Herbert Charles Fahie Cox, Attorney-General, Nigeria, was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
[5] In February 1956 Sir Herbert Cox, Q.C., lately Chief Justice in Tanganyika, was appointed chairman of a Commission of Inquiry into the recent disturbances in Sierra Leone against the increases in hut tax.
[10] In 1957 Cox was appointed Chief Justice of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland (BBS) in place of Harold Curwen Willan (1896-1971), who had left office in 1956.