Robert Cox (Scottish politician)

Robert J. Cox FRSE (6 May 1845 – 2 June 1899) was a Scottish gelatine and glue manufacturer and Liberal Unionist politician.

[3] They had 6 children, Harold, Douglas, Rosalind, Winafried, Mina, Robert Ferdinand De Lesseps (composer and musician, who died in 1952).

[7] Cox was selected as the Unionist candidate for the seat, which had become vacant on the death of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir George Campbell.

[8] However Cox was unsuccessful, the seat being held for the Liberals by a majority of 1,036 votes,[7] by J H Dalziel, a journalist and later newspaper proprietor.

[8] Cox did not contest the 1892 general election but in June 1895 the Unionist Association of the East Edinburgh division approached him as a possible candidate.

[15] Cox was also a member of the Royal Company of Archers, the ceremonial unit that served as the Sovereign's Bodyguard in Scotland.