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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Cox, George Henry
Cox, George Henry , Butcher, Wellington Street, Enfleld. This business was established in 1878, and has been conducted on the premises now occupied since 1881. Mr. Cox was born in Berkshire, England, in 1855, and attended school in his native place, Subsequently he served a part apprenticeship as a butcher in London, and came to Port Chalmers by the barque “Lutterworth,” in 1869. He entered the employment of Mr. H. T. Muscott, of Hampden, where he remained for nine years, when he removed to the Enfield district. Mr. Cox owns ten acres and a quarter of freehold, and leases fifty-five acres of educational reserve. He served for many years on the Enfiled school committee, of which he was secretary, and as a volunteer was six years in the Hampden Rifles and two years in the Oamaru corps. He is also a member of the Waiareka Lodge of Oddfellows. Mr. Cox was married, in March, 1883, to a daughter of the late Mr. Lawrence Robertson, of Caversham, Dunedin, and has a surviving family of four sons and seven daughters.