Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet PC (25 March 1650 – 3 May 1733) was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707 and as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench for Ireland from 1711 to 1714.

Cox was born in Bandon, Ireland. He was the great-great-grandson of Richard Cox, the Chancellor of Oxford in 1547. His family had arrived from Wiltshire in c. 1600, and was dispossessed in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. His father was Captain Richard Cox II (1610–c1651) and mother was Katherine (Bird) Batten. She was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland and died c.1651/52 probably in Bandon. He was orphaned at the age of three and raised by his maternal grandparents and uncle in County Cork.

He qualified at Gray's Inn, London, in 1673; was apprenticed in the manorial courts of the Boyle family, of County Cork. He was appointed Recorder of Kinsale, and acquired an estate at Clonakilty, 1687; but lost recordership after accession of James II. He moved to Bristol, where he practiced as a lawyer and became acquainted with Sir Robert Southwell, who introduced him to the Duke of Ormonde, thereafter his patron. He returned to Ireland, and fought at the Boyne, in 1690. He was knighted on 5 November 1692 by William III of England and then became a baronet on 21 November 1706.

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