Frank Arnold Coxhead of New Zealand
Famous Landscape Photographer of Dunedin
Frank born 1851 and his stepbrother Harry born 1846 came to Dunedin with their parents in 1858.
The Coxhead brothers made their mark in photographic history.
Frank especially with his fine landscape work, but descendants of the family know little about them.
Harry was qualified by 1868 and took over J. W. Allen’s Studio in Moray Place opposite the stables of the Criterion Hotel
(now Savoy) and was active in Timaru in 1872 where he had a branch Studio.
Frank was qualified by 1872 and took over J. W. Allen’s second Studio in Princess Street near the Octagon
where his assistant was William Esquilant (who was to become for 63 years a leading Dunedin photographer) T. G. Wickens,
the Wellington photographer was apprenticed by Frank Coxhead.
The Coxhead brothers had an Invercargill branch, first in Don Street and by 1875 in Esk Street,
and it was in Invercargill both brothers were married.Many of Coxhead Brothers’ portraits are labelled with the address of Dunnings Buildings, Princess Street, Dunedin,
where they must have been active in the 1880s.
It is thought that Harry gave up photography and died in Timaru about 1885 from ascites.Frank opened a luxurious Studio on the corner of Princess and High Streets (CMA Building) Dunedin in 1890,
where he had speaking tubes connecting the reception area with the working floors and a lift for the use of clients.
There were waiting rooms, dressing rooms, lavatory, printing and enlarging rooms, retouching, burnishing
and mounting rooms and a special room on the corner of the building with a window looking north up Princess Street
for tourists, and here he displayed his view photographs.
The Studio he designed himself after visits to the Studious of Europe and America, and contained the latest ideas.
It is known that Frank Coxhead had a child born in America in 1901, and also that about 1898
he handed over his best landscape plates to Burton Brothers,
who included some of his prints in their catalogue of 1901 after removing his signiture and sibstituting their own.No more of Frank Coxhead is heard in Dunedin after that time, but his landscape views,
often mounted in large albums are treasured today by libraries,
art galleries, museums and collectors of fine photography.
Maurice Peter Coxhead. M.B.E. of London England
British Theatre News Dateline: 17th June, 2001.
Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours List was published on Friday 15th June.
The list contains names which are famous - actress Eileen Atkins, for instance, and actor Christopher Lee -
and others who have contributed to their respective spheres on a local level.Among those honoured were:
Maurice Peter Coxhead; for services to Drama London NW1, b 1-1925 Edmonton, Lon. Mountview Founder's Retirement. Nov. 2003
After almost sixty years, Mountview's founder principal Peter Coxhead has retired from his post of chief executive of the Academy.
Mountview's new Chief Executive is leading entrepreneur and industrialist Sir Alan Cox.
Passionately committed to the arts, Sir Alan's has recently chaired the Board of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff
and 'The Public' arts project in West Bromwich – ventures which have raised over £145 million.
Sir Alan's first formal involvement with Mountview began last year when he chaired the Feasibility Study working party
which put together plans to place Mountview in a new building at the centre of the Haringey Heartlands regeneration plans.On Peter Coxhead's retirement, deputy chair, John Hyatt, paid tribute to Peter's contribution to Drama Training in Britain.
Peter's achievement was recognised in 2001 New Year's Honours List when he was presented with an MBE by the Queen.Peter said: "Over the years Mountview has grown in size and reputation and is now recognised as one of the leading academies of theatre arts.
I am immensely proud of everything that has been achieved and have the highest regard for the dedicated staffand talented students who make Mountview what it is.
The plans for new development will provide Mountview with excellent facilities under one roof and within the
Haringey Heartlands scheme are hugely exciting and Alan Cox, with his amazing energy and remarkable skills,
is the right man to steer Mountview into the future."A new Board of Directors has been appointed to lead Mountview.
Its members are Jean Brown, John Caird, John Hyatt, Amanda Jordan, Sylvia King and Pamela Morris-Sykes.
Many members of the previous Mountview Board have agreed to continue to serve the Academy in an advisory capacity
From DEBRETTS 1996 HANDBOOK
COXHEAD HAROLD EDWARD, OBE (1975)
Son of Edward Coxhead, (d 1926, family arrived 1858) and Barbara Hay Fletcher (decd) born 17/6/1903.
Educated, Timaru Boys H/S., married ?? 1831 / 1931 to Annie Gwenllian, daughter of Benjamin Watkins,1 son (and 1 decd) 2 dau. (and 1 decd). Career, Chairman Mutual Travel Service and Mutual Avis Rent A Car for 36 yrs.
Chairman, Tourist Hotel Corp. for 8 yrs. Recreat. rugby, golf, fishing, mountaineering, tennis Clubs, Sth Canterbury Mens, Wellesley, Auckland Men's (hon).
Style... Mr. Harold Coxhead OBE, 170 Douglas Str. Timaru, NZ. Tel 43742 1951Man. Dir. Mutual Rental Cars, etc. PO Box 13 Timaru. Born Timaru 17-6-1903, s/o Edward F Coxhead, marr 1932,
to Nancy Gwellian, d/o Benjamin Watkins, one son & three daughters, Educ. Timaru BHS. S. Is. Rugby, rep, 1928,
S. Cant. 1924--28, traverse of Matterhorn 1929, with D.C. Turnbull & Co. of Timaru, 1922, with Gavin Moffat, Public Accountant, 1923,
(plus more detail) Priv. address, 30 Beverley Hill, Timaru, (1968 address : 170 Douglas Str. Timaru)
Ernest Albert Coxhead was born in Eastbourne, England in 1863.
He received his architectural training at the Royal Academy and Architectural Association in London.
In 1886, Coxhead moved with his brother Almeric to Los Angeles, where the two began their architecture practice.
Four years later they moved to San Francisco, where they remained until retirement.At the beginning of his career, Ernest Coxhead focused on designing churches, primarily in the Gothic Revival style.
His church of St. John the Evangelist in the Mission District was destroyed by the 1906 fire, but his Episcopal church
in Petaluma, California, and eleven (out of 17) church buildings remain in California.
BRIAN COXHEAD in Liverpool England
As well as being a member of Hope's Governing Council, Mr Brian Coxhead also sits on Staffing Committee.
Mr Coxhead spent his working life employed at Pilkington Glass, initially in Management Services and Training
before being seconded to work with job creation and training schemes in St Helens.
Pilkingtons granted Mr Coxhead a three year sabbatical towards the end of his career to work
as a Youth Worker in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.Mr Coxhead has also held many voluntary posts including as a marriage guidance counsellor, running parish family groups
and assisting with the organisation of Christian Family Weeks.In addition to his membership of Hope's Governing Council, Mr Coxhead is a governor of Carmel College,
a director of the Citadel Arts Centre in St Helens and a member of Riverside Housing St Helens and Knowsley Divisional Board.0151 291 3756 or e-mail [donelag@hope.ac.uk]
Welcome to Liverpool Hope University College
Dr Peter Coxhead, Publications. (Birmingham England)
Books
Coxhead, P. Starting LISP for AI, Oxford: Blackwell Scientific, 1987.
Gupta, R. M. & Coxhead, P. (eds) Cultural Diversity and Learning Efficiency: Recent Developments in Assessment, London: Macmillan, 1988.
Gupta, R. M. & Coxhead, P. (eds) Intervention with Children, London: Routledge, 1990.
Gupta, R. M. & Coxhead, P. (eds) Asesoramiento y Apoyo Psicopedagogico, Madrid: Narcea, 1993. (Translation of a revision of Intervention with Children)Other Publications
Coxhead, P. & Fowkes, H. H. (eds) A Natural History of Sutton Park -- Part 1: Vascular Plants (first edition), Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society, 1991. Coxhead, P. & Fowkes, H. H. (eds) A Natural History of Sutton Park -- Part 2: Fungi, Lichens and Bryophytes, Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society, 1993. Coxhead, P. "Changes in the Vascular Plant Flora of Sutton Park", Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society 27(1), pp. 2-12, 1994.
Bodnar, S., edited by Coxhead, P. & Fowkes, H. H. A Natural History of Sutton Park -- Part 3: Birds, Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society, 1995.
Coxhead, P. "The Marsh-orchids of Sutton Park", Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society 27(2), pp. 15-21, 1996.
Coxhead, P. & Fowkes, H. H. (eds) A Natural History of Sutton Park -- Part 1: Vascular Plants (second edition), Sutton Coldfield Natural History Society, 1998.
Coxhead, P. "Recent Changes and Additions to the Flora of Sutton Park", Proceedings of the Birmingham Natural History Society 27(4), pp. 246-247, 2000.
*****************Carrying out research on the COXHEAD Family
Kings CollegeGEOFFREY S COXHEAD 1911—2000 HEADMASTER
This Article appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, 2000
GEOFFREY COXHEAD ‘Headmaster’ 1911 - 2000. (died 23-7-2000)
An engagingly original teacher. Talented sketcher and photographer, a first rate chess player and a keen climber who survived
four years as a Japanese POW, Geoffrey Coxhead has died at the age of 89.
Geoffrey Shervill Coxhead, who became headmaster of King’s College, Hong Kong, was himself the son of a headmaster.He was educated at grammar school, Liverpool University and University College, London.
His first job in 1935 was at the Cathedral School, Bombay.
He moved to Hong Kong in 1940, arriving just as British women and children were being evacuated,
and joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps as a part time soldier.He was called up in December 1941 as a gunner on Stanley Peninsula,
his gun facing impotently out to sea as the Japanese invaded from the mainland.
The first months of imprisonment in Hong Kong were relatively benign. The prisoners set up a school, where Coxhead taught geography.
He founded a chess club whose members carved the pieces from any discarded wood they could lay their hands on.After being transported to Japan, Coxhead worked in the dockyards on Innoshima Island, on the Inland Sea,
where he mitigated the horrors of hard labour on meagre rations by making exquisite drawings of the scenery
and keeping an immaculate diary in tiny, but highly legible, writing.The prisoners were endlessly resourceful. One volunteered to clean the guards’ henhouse so that he could smuggle out
the occasional egg at the bottom of a bucket of chicken manure which the guards were far too fastidious to search;
another scratched a small garden on waste ground where he planted pumpkin seeds.Survival, nonetheless, was a struggle, and many of Coxhead’s fellow POWs died of malnutrition and disease.
He was badly injured in the dockyards where a keel fell on him.
It took six fellow prisoners to free him, and he was hauled to a doctor in a wheelbarrow.
When the doctor ordered him to get up and walk, Coxhead fell down. Years later an X-ray showed he had fractured a vertebra.Unlike many ex-Japanese POWs, Coxhead never felt animosity towards his captors.
He experienced sufficient acts of kindness to appreciate the distinction between individual Japanese and their Government.Once he was resting in a ship’s hold when he should have been working; two guards spotted him, threw him a packet of cigarettes and walked on.
After the war he returned three times to his place of imprisonment, and was always given a VIP welcome by Japanese dockyard workers.Repatriated via Australia, he met his wife-to-be, Joan Osborn, on board ship.
Travelling steerage, he had great pleasure each day turfing the first class passengers out of their lounge in order to run a shipboard school.He and Joan married in England and returned to Hong Kong, where he resumed teaching. Fluent in Cantonese,
he worked in a number of schools, finally as headmaster of King’s College.Coxhead could on occasion be testy.
On his final visit to Hong Kong in 1995 he was waiting to go into lunch when he was approached by an affable stranger.
“What” asked the unknown man. “was your role in Hong Kong?” asked Coxhead who had just finished fielding reporters’ questions, responded irritably:
“What is your role in Hong Kong?” “I” said his companion with a smile, “am the Governor.”
The stranger was Chris Patten and the two men then chatted for ten minutes.Geoffrey Coxhead is survived by wife Joan and their three children.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, London.
His wife Joan Coxhead wrote a 2 page handwritten letter to Kings College in Hong Kong, dated 12-8-2000. Sent to the Principal Mr. Ho Yue Shun.
John Thomas Coxhead Biography b 1852
This biography appears on pages 504, 507 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915)
and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net
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Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical,
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If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is athttp://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/sdfiles.htm JOHN THOMAS COXHEAD.
John Thomas Coxhead b 8th July 1852
S/o John Frederick Coxhead born in Oxford. Eng. 25th Jan. 1822
Arrived USA 1830
Married Delia Maria Davis (she was born in Derby, Connecticut)
Educated in public and private schools Poughkeepsie, New YorkMr. Coxhead has been twice married.
He first wedded Eugenie A. Dady, who died on the 1st of February, 1905.On the 12th of August, 1908, at St. Paul, Minnesota, he was united in marriage to Miss Grace Bryant, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Collingwood) Bryant.
Their children are: Dorothy Elizabeth Coxhead, born May 29, 1910; and
Robert Homer Coxhead, born August 18, 1912.Mr. Coxhead is a republican in his political views. He has an interesting military chapter in his life record,
for in early manhood he became a member of the New York National Guard, with which he served from 1878 until 1881.Following his arrival in the northwest he enlisted on the 15th of March, 1885, as a member of Company E,
First Regiment, Dakota National Guard, and was appointed sergeant major on the 15th of August of the same year.On the 20th of February, 1889, he was elected captain of Company E and was commissioned major of the Third Battalion, S. D. N. G.
September 15, 1893, retaining that rank until he retired in August, 1899.He is an Episcopalian in religious faith and has been warden and vestryman
John Thomas Coxhead, engaged in the manufacture of special furniture, particularly church and bank fixtures, at Yankton,
has developed a trade which covers one-half of the country.
He started in that line of business in May, 1875, and has been thus connected with industrial activity in Dakota since 1881.
His advance since that time has been continuous and the results achieved justify the methods which he has ever followed.
He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, July 8, 1852, and is a descendant in the ninth generation of
the Rev. Peter Prudden, the first minister and leader of the colony that left Hertfordshire, England,
and settled in Milford, Connecticut, in the year 1639. His father, John Frederick Coxhead, was born in Oxford, England, January 25, 1822.
He came to this country in 1830 and married Delia Maria Davis, who was born in Derby, Connecticut.
In the public and private schools of Poughkeepsie, New York.
John Thomas Coxhead pursued his education and after acquainting himself with the prominent features of
the trade engaged in the furniture business and woodworking at Hyde Park, New York, in May 1875.
There he remained for about six years and on the 4th of November, 1881, arrived in Yankton, Dakota territory.
There he continued the business of woodworking and manufacturing special furniture and has since carried on a growing
and successful business along that line, making a specialty of the manufacture of church furniture and bank fixtures.
His trade in the former has been particularly large and he has made shipments to at least one-half of the states of the Union.
His factory is well appointed and equipped and employment is furnished to a large force of workmen.
He has ever recognized the feet that satisfied customers are the best advertisement and, striving earnestly to please his patrons,
has built up a business of gratifying proportions.Mr. Coxhead has been twice married. He first wedded Eugenie A. Dady, who died on the 1st of February, 1905.
On the 12th of August, 1908, at St. Paul, Minnesota, he was united in marriage to Miss Grace Bryant,
a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Collingwood) Bryant.
Their children are: Dorothy Elizabeth Coxhead, born May 29, 1910; and Robert Homer Coxhead, born August 18, 1912.
Mr. Coxhead is a republican in his political views. He has an interesting military chapter in his life record,
for in early manhood he became a member of the New York National Guard, with which he served from 1878 until 1881.
Following his arrival in the northwest he enlisted on the 15th of March, 1885, as a member of Company E, First Regiment,
Dakota National Guard, and was appointed sergeant major on the 15th of August of the same year. On the 20th of February, 1889,
he was elected captain of Company E and was commissioned major of the Third Battalion, S. D. N. G., September 15, 1893,
retaining that rank until he retired in August, 1899.
He is an Episcopalian in religious faith and has been warden and vestryman of Christ church of Yankton,
of which he has been a communicant for many years. His life, honorable in its purposes and fruitful in its beneficent results,
has made him one of the leading and valued citizens of Yankton.
IAN COXHEADHi. I'm a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where I teach and conduct research in development economics.I am also director of the UW Center for Southeast Asian Studies
You can download a flier (PDF) for my new book,
The Open Economy and the Environment: Development, Trade and Resources in Asia
Hey, everybody likes free publicity! Read about my work in the UW Annual Report 2002
Links to other pages:
* Courses and graduate instruction * Papers and publications * SANREM CRSP-Southeast Asia *
Other research projects * CV and contact information * Where I come from *
Send me email: coxhead@wisc.edu
Averil CoxheadMA
Averil is the Internal Liaison co-ordinator and is a class teacher on the English Proficiency Programme.
She is particularly interested in vocabulary learning and testing and has developed a new Academic Word List.
Averil has also taught in the UK, Hungary, Romania and Estonia and is extremely interested in Finn-Ugric languages.Selection of Publications
Coxhead, Averil (2002) 'Academic Writing Help Pages' in Michael Rundell (ed.)
Macmillan English Dictionary Macmillan: LondonCoxhead, Averil (2002) 'The Academic Word List: A Corpus-based Word List for Academic Purposes'
in Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) 2000 Conference Proceedings Rodopi: Atlanta
John Hopper Coxhead FAIA.
( 1863 ~~ 1943 )Introduction by
Detail and photo Courtesy of John Thomas Coxhead and Jarrett Kroll, Grandson and Great-granddaughter of John Hopper Coxhead.
With a career nearly as long as Frank Lloyd Wright's and a style as inspiring as H. H. Richardson's,
architect John Hopper Coxhead could be as well-known as these two world-renowned architects.
Coxhead has known extant buildings in six states, designed and built buildings in at least twenty states,
and has at least ten buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, yet few people have ever heard of him. Why?In 1999 I created a graphical time line covering the years 1850 to 1950 to help me and others understand how the life
and work of major architects, and major world events, architectural periods, and technological advances may have shaped Coxhead’s work.
The secondary purpose of the time line was to help others understand how these major events affected the development
of the United States in general and specifically the development of American architecture and landscapes.In 2001, I completed my Masters of Arts in Historic Preservation from Goucher College.
My thesis discussed the client connections in Coxhead’s work.
The next several pages provide some background on John Hopper Coxhead and show some of his more interesting commissions.
The background on these pages is a sketch from Coxhead’s papers, courtesy of John ThomasEnter here for Homepage of John Hopper Coxhead
Nona Coxhead
NONA COXHEAD was a complex and many-faceted woman: model, dancer, novelist and writer on metaphysical science.
She was born in Australia, educated in England and as an adult lived in both the United States and London.
From the late 1960s she lectured at the London association of Science of Mind, and later led the group for more than 20 years.
No wonder she described her life as peripatetic and kaleidoscopic.She was born Nona Reed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1914 to an Alsatian-American father and an Australian-Scottish mother.
When she was still a young child her father deserted the family, and her mother brought her to England to be educated.
Her mother's second husband was Herbert Mundin, the British comedian who worked in Hollywood and appeared in over 100 films in the 1930s including
The Desert Song, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Nona described him as excruciatingly funny.
Her mother, Kathleen, founded the Children's Cancer Fund of America and organised the fundraising "Fan Ball" for more than 25 years.Meanwhile, Nona was left in various boarding schools - 11 in all - in Britain, America and Australia.
During the summer holidays she was often looked after by school caretakers. Lonely and rejected, she became an avid reader and observer of life.
At one school, aged 12, she listed reading as her favourite hobby and claimed special time for it.
This was granted on condition that she wrote a report on each book she read. That term she reported on 93 books.
A few years later, not yet 16, she eloped during a visit to her mother and stepfather in Hollywood. The marriage was later annulled.After returning to England, a beautiful and elegant young woman, she began to model for Norman Hartnell, and then to perform in London and Paris
as an interpretive dancer, creating her own routines to music by Duke Ellington and Cab Callaway, and designing and making her own costumes.
She also sang on French radio.Just before the Second World War broke out she sailed to New York where she married Stuart Coxhead and began her long writing career.
At first she tried her hand at short stories, but without much success; then she started on a novel. A friend sent the first seven chapters to
Maxwell Perkins (Scott Fitzgerald's editor) at Scribner's; he accepted the book at once. It was published as Though They Go Wandering (1945) and
followed the next year by The Heart Has Reasons.For a while she returned to short stories, which appeared in McCall's, Redbook and the Yale Review. Then came House of Mirror (1950),
the complex portrait of a landlady who exerts a hypnotic influence over the lodgers in her boarding house: "an unusual sort of book to
come from a young writer", said the critic Pauline C. Coad. "It deals with facts about human personality usually not perceived except after ripe
and wide experience coupled with the inquiring mind, which refects surface appearance, striving always to get to the mainspring of human behaviour."Living in Westport, Connecticut, in the 1950s and early 1960s, Nona Coxhead created the first fiction (correspondence) courses for the Famous Writers School.
Some of her short stories were adapted for television, including a novella, Gentle William, which was featured on Playhouse 90 as House of Shadow.
Her next two novels, Simon West (1958) and The Monkey Puzzle Tree (1968), depicted suburban life, and were followed by biographies
of Amelia Earhart (in 1970, under the pseudonym Nevin Bell) and Greta Garbo (1972).By the mid-Sixties, Coxhead was at a low point in her life, having separated from her last husband. It was then that she encountered the metaphysical teachings
of Ernest Holmes, known as Science of Mind, and trained under the legendary minister Raymond Charles Barker. Science of Mind,
a system of constructive thinking, should not be confused with Scientology. It originated at the end of the 19th century with a series of
lectures delivered by Judge Thomas Troward. In them he laid out his beliefs that there is one spiritual "power" that comes from God and which is
inherently good, and that it can be harnessed for the benefit of mankind and individuals.Nona Coxhead came to England in 1968, where she found a small but flourishing Science of Mind group run by Dr Winifred Layton Gaubert.
On Gaubert's retirement Coxhead started lecturing on the subject herself, first in conjunction with Michael Grimes and later on her own.She was ordained as a Minister of Religious Science in 1968, and until the end of her life devoted herself wholeheartedly to this metaphysical teaching
and as lecturer, teacher, counsellor, healer and leader gave unstintingly of herself, her time, her substance and her energy,
helping people make profound changes in their lives.Her writings expanded into studies of the mind - Mind Power: the emerging pattern of current research (1976) and The Awakened Mind: biofeedback
and the development of higher states of awareness (1979), based on the work of Maxwell Cade and written in conjunction with him
(he got in touch with her after reading Mind Power). The Relevance of Bliss (1985) was a study of mystical experiences and showed how common
such experiences were; Beyond Psychology: the potential of conscious thinking (1991) showed clearly the way that we can control our lives by
conscious thinking and self-direction.She continued to write fiction too - short stories that appeared in Woman and other magazines and a best-selling novel, The Richest Girl in the World,
which was based loosely on the life of Barbara Hutton (1978).In Big Time Baby (1981), No Ordinary Madness (1982), The Passionate Search (1983) and Command Performance (1986) Coxhead drew
on her broad knowledge of Hollywood, show business, the 1920s and 1930s, but her non-fiction books were meticulously researched.
She made tapes of her teachings which she marketed in a modest way and which sold well.Nona Coxhead was passionately concerned with animal welfare and in America was for a time one of the editors of the magazine Pet Fair.
In England she campaigned vigorously against battery hens.Nona Kathleen Reed, writer and metaphysical teacher: born Melbourne, Australia 22 December 1914; married first Stuart Coxhead (one daughter),
second Paul Cerny (one son), third Stephen Bell; died London 16 July 1998.Obituary: Nona Coxhead
Freda Steel James
Monday, 24 August 1998
