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==Early life== [[File:Ernest Frank Guelph Cox, Wolverhampton - geograph.org.uk - 689177.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Blue plaque]] Born in 1883, the eleventh son of a Wolverhampton [[draper]], Cox left school at thirteen but chose to study electrical engineering in his spare time, and through a succession of jobs, earned himself the post of Engineer at a Wolverhampton power station by the age of eighteen. Deciding that anyone who could put electricity into people's homes would become rich, Cox was determined to be just that, and moved to the post of Assistant Engineer at [[Royal Leamington Spa|Leamington]], and from there to [[Ryde]] Corporation on the [[Isle of Wight]]. In doing so he learned the art of salesmanship, selling electrical power installation to the inhabitants of Ryde.
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