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Coxon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Coxon (cricketer) (19302012), English cricketer
- Alan Coxon (born before 2006), British TV chef and presenter
- Alec Coxon (19162006), English cricketer
- Allan Coxon (19092001), English academic who specialised in classical Greek and ancient philosophy
- Chris Coxon (born 1987), British actor known for the film Sherlock Holmes.
- Graham Coxon (born 1969), English musician, singer-songwriter and painter, a founding member of the band Blur
- John Coxon (pirate) (active 167782), referred to as John Coxen in some sources
- John Coxon (born before 1993), member of English band Spring Heel Jack
- Lucinda Coxon (born 1962), English playwright and screenwriter
- Mark Coxon (born 1978), English cricketer
- Roy Coxon (born before 1952), English-born footballer who played for New Zealand
- Scott Coxon (born 1973), Australian rugby league player
- Tom Coxon (18831942), English footballer
Usage examples of "coxon".
Six captains, Sharp, Coxon, Essex, Allison, Row, and Maggott, in four barques and two sloops, met at Point Morant in December 1679, and on 7th January set sail for Porto Bello.
On his passage home the governor met with Captain Coxon, who, having quarrelled with his companions in the Pacific, had returned across Darien to the West Indies and was again hanging about the shores of Jamaica.
I being then on Board Captain Coxon, in company with 3 or 4 more Privateers, about 4 leagues to the East of Portobel, we took the Pacquets bound thither from Cartagena.
Dampier tells us that at the end of May 1681, Coxon was lying with seven or eight other privateers at the Samballas, islands on the coast of Darien, with a ship of ten guns and 100 men.
Governor Clarke, on the plea of retaliating Spanish outrages, gave letters of marque to several privateers, including Coxon, the same famous chief who in 1680 had led the buccaneers into the South Seas.
The expedition of Harris, Coxon, Sharp and their associates across the isthmus in 1680 had kindled the imaginations of the buccaneers with the possibilities of greater plunder and adventure in these more distant regions.
Chief or Captain of the Darien Indians, who in 1679 conducted the buccaneers under Coxon and Harris across the isthmus to attack Santa Maria and afterwards to make an attempt on Panama.
He afterwards led back a party of malcontents under Captain Coxon from the Pacific side of the isthmus.
These the pirates, under the command of Captains Barnes and Coxon, carried back to Jamaica and delivered up to Lord Vaughan, the Governor of the island.
Instead of trying to stamp out the pirates, he did all he could to encourage them, by granting letters of marque to such men as Coxon, to go privateering, these letters being quite illegal.
He commanded a barque in the successful sacking of Porto Bello in the same year in company with Sharp, Coxon, and others.
Quarrels took place between Coxon, who was, no doubt, a hot-tempered man, and Harris, which led to blows.
We do not know the name of the ship Coxon commanded at this date, but it was a vessel of eighty tons, armed with eight guns, and carrying a crew of ninety-seven men.
Shortly after reaching the West Indies, he chanced to meet with several well-known buccaneers, including Captains Coxon, Sawkins, and Sharp.
Sharp, Coxon, and other English buccaneers in an attack on Porto Bello.