[1] He is now chiefly remembered for building one of Ireland's most magnificent remaining mansions, Castletown Cox, near Carrick-on-Suir.
A younger son of Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707, and his wife Mary Bourne, he was born in Cork.
He became Chaplain to Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, then Rector of Calan and Chancellor of Kilkenny.
[4] He spent his last years building a magnificent mansion, Castletown Cox, in south County Kilkenny.
[5] The Archbishop died in 1779, aged ninety, and was buried beside his wife in St. Canice's Cathedral.