COXE, HENRY OCTAVIUS (18 r 1-81), English librarian and palaeographer, was born at Bucklebury, Berkshire, and educated at Westminster and Worcester college, Oxford. He began work in the manuscript department of the British Museum, became sub-librarian of the Bodleian, at Oxford, in 1838, and was head librarian there, 186o-8r. He was sent by the British Gov ernment, in 1857, on a tour of inspection of the monastic libraries of the Levant, one of the results being the detection of the forgery attempted by Constantine Simonides.
He published Rogeri de Wendover Chronica (1841-44), and Report on the Greek Manuscripts yet remaining in the Libraries of the Levant (1858).