Reginald Kennedy-Cox

Kennedy-Cox was born in 1881,[1] the son of Reginald Cox and his wife Ada Harriette, née Kennedy.

[3] During the First World War, he was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment,[4] and later served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps and at 27th Divisional headquarters, being mentioned in dispatches.

[2] After the war he returned to the Malvern Settlement as Warden and oversaw a period of considerable building and expansion.

1"; in the following years, using his private financial resources, Kennedy-Cox led an extension of the Dockland Settlements scheme into other areas of London, including Millwall, Rotherhithe and Stratford.

[1][2] Sir Reginald had adopted a son who was killed during a London Blitz raid and is buried with him at All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.