Percy Zachariah Cox
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Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, GCMG, GCIE, KCSI (b. 20 November 1864, Herongate, Essex, England - d. 20 February 1937, Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, England) was a British administrator and diplomat in the British Mandate of Iraq.
He established the Iraqi army and constitution. He replaced Sir Arnold Wilson as the British Civil Commissioner in Baghdad in 1920. In 1902, he was adviser to the Sultan of Oman.
Nicknamed Coccus, Cox replaced Sir Charles Marling as Minister at Tehran from the Indian Political Service and wrote the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919.
He established the Iraqi army and created the individual state of Kuwait as an autonomous Kaza within the Ottoman Empire which was set up in the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913.
[edit] Lady Belle Cox, DBE
Lady Belle Cox, née Hamilton, Sir Percy Cox's wife was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1923.
[edit] References
- Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac,Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East, W.W. Norton, 2008, ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4.
- J. Townsend, Some reflections on the life and career of Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., Asian Affairs, Vol. 24, #3, November 1993, pp. 259-272
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by Shareen Blair Brysac, World Policy Journal, Summer 2007.[1][3]
