{"id":7803,"date":"2022-12-25T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=7803"},"modified":"2022-12-28T00:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:10:25","slug":"cox-shaun-maturin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/southshieldslocalhistorygroup.co.uk\/index.php\/people\/local-success-stories\/cox-shaun-maturin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cox, Shaun Maturin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shaun Maturin Cox was born on the 24th<\/sup> April 1914 in Howth, Co Dublin. He qualified from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1934 with a degree in Experimental Science.  Shaun married Marjorie Ethel Strong-Heckles on Friday 13 Nov 1936 at St Nicholas’s church in Durham.  This was reported in the local paper:  Being a scientist he would have scoffed at the superstition of not getting married on Friday 13th<\/sup> and to emphasise this he also walked under a ladder.  His wonderful wife bought him a barrel of ale and a dart board!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the war he served 5 and a half years in the Local Defence Volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shaun was Manager of J.A. Jobling & Co, Sunderland (UK manufacturers of Pyrex glass) and was awarded an MBE on 9 June 1949 for his contribution to the war effort:

\u201cHe successfully developed a method of producing sintered scientific glassware which had hitherto been imported from Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He became a Director at Joblings in 1950. and lived at Norman Hurst in Westoe Village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He died in 1979 and his wife Marjorie died in 1997.\u00a0 They are both buried in Harton Cemetery section C.

Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Newspaper Archives
David Fenton

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