Religious Figure, Author. He is recognized as an early 19th century English Baptist church minister, who was a leader and member of a group of what was considered dissidents, social reformers known as the Clapham sect. Some of his interests included astronomy, poetry, geology, natural philosophy and literature. With a strong knowledge of history, he contributed articles on biblical antiquity for "Encyclopaedia Britannica." His most acclaimed work, was "The Female Scripture Biography," Volumes I and II, including an "Essay On What Christianity has Done for Women." Published in 1817 and writing from an evangelical perspective, the volumes are considered by some to be of historical significance, with 28 reprints until 1999. After attending Bristol Bible Academy and completing a Master of Arts degree at Edinburgh University in 1802, he became in 1805 a pastor at the Baptist Congregational Church, which was known as Clipston in Northamptonshire. As the level of occupancy within the parish increased, a bigger chapel was built. After leaving Clipston, he replaced Rev. Robert Hall at St. Andrew's Cambridge, before returning to Clipston. In 1809 he founded an English periodical, "The Baptist Magazine" and published numerous essays. In 1810 he worked as a math tutor and examiner at a newly opened Baptist College in Stepney and was the Minister at Shore Place, Hackney in 1811. The following year, the congregation had grown and a larger premises known as the Mare Street Baptist Church, Hackney was established. During a trip to the United States, he was honored with the title of Doctor of Divinity by Waterford University and in 1826 was recognized by Glasgow University with an honorary Doctor of Law degree. During that same year, he and his colleagues, Brougham and Cambell, founded the University College of London. As a practicing clergyman, he was unable to continue his administrative position at the University College and became the university librarian, where he sourced its original book collection. He was the founder and publisher of the "Patriot" newspaper in 1830 and he also made various contributions from the "Eclectic Review" to "Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature." In 1838, Moses Roper, who was a fugitive slave abolitionist from the United States, gave a London speech, revealing that F.A. Cox had largely financed his studies through the Bible Academy and the University College London. He was involved in unions and committees and was president of the Baptist Union and served for ten years as Joint-Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society. He was the Chairman of the Board of Colonial Apprenticeships and a member of the Education Committee for the Protestant Dissenters Grammar School and Secretary to the Protestant Society. His portrait is included in the 1840 painting "The Anti-Slavery Society Convention by Benjamin Robert Haydon, which is on displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London. When he died in 1853, he had retained his position as pastor at the Mare Street chapel for forty-two years.