Richard Hippisley Coxe (22 September 1742 – 26 August 1786) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1784.
Coxe was the son of John Hippisley Coxe of Ston Easton and his wife Mary Northleigh, daughter of Stephen Northleigh of Peamore, Devon.
He was educated at Westminster School from 1754 to 1759 and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 19 June 1759.
[2] Coxe was subsequently ‘found to be lunatic under a writ de lunatico inquirendo’.
His brothers were put in charge of his person and estates by an order of the court of Chancery on 9 December 1784.