Editing Percy Cox (section)

{{Short description|British Indian Army general (1864–1937)}}
{{For|the West Indian cricketer|Percy Cox (cricketer)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Sir Percy Cox
| image         = Percy Cox 1916.JPG
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| caption       = Cox in 1916
| nickname      = Coccus<br/>Kokus (Kokkus)
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1864|11|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = Harwood Hall, [[Herongate]], [[Essex]], England
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1937|02|20|1864|11|20|df=yes}}
| death_place   = [[Melchbourne]], [[Bedfordshire]], England
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| allegiance    = United Kingdom
| branch        = [[British Army]]<br/>[[British Indian Army]]
| serviceyears  = 1884–1923
| rank          = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]]
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| commands      = 
| battles       = [[First World War]]
| awards        = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]]<br/>[[Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]]<br/>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br/>[[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]
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}}
[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Sir Percy Zachariah Cox''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|GCMG|GCIE|KCSI|KBE|DL}} (20 November 1864 – 20 February 1937) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer and [[Colonial Office]] administrator in the [[Middle East]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hopkirk |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H71qNi6cF94C&dq=Percy+Cox&pg=PA31 |title=On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-280230-9 |pages=31 |language=en}}</ref> He was one of the major figures in the creation of the [[History of the Middle East#Modern Middle East|current Middle East]].