Background
Cox-George was born on June 15, 1915 in Degema, Nigeria, to Sierra Leonean parents, Noah Obediah Collingwood George and Rosabel Abigail Regina George (née Cox).
Cox-George was born on June 15, 1915 in Degema, Nigeria, to Sierra Leonean parents, Noah Obediah Collingwood George and Rosabel Abigail Regina George (née Cox).
Following his graduation from the Grammar School, Cox-George was employed as a clerk in the Post and Telecommunications Department in Freetown. He would proceed to the London School of Economics (London School of Economics) where he would study and obtain second-class honours in 1946. Cox-George then completed his M.S.c at London School of Economics, before proceeding to Oxford University and completing his doctorate in 1954.
Noah Obediah George was a civil servant of Nova Scotian Settler descent. The George family had been among the 1,131 black American colonists who had founded the second colony of Sierra Leone and the settlement of Freetown in March 1792. Following the completion of his graduate studies, Cox-George proceeded to Fourah Bay College, where he helped to set up the economics department and was a senior lecturer and dean
Between 1961 and 1964, Cox-George proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he was instrumental in setting up the Department of Economics and served as the Head of the Department of Economics.
He established himself as an eminent academic within Sierra Leone and the United States of America and proposed a political development plan that would include a bicameral legislative chamber that would represent both the Colony of Sierra Leone and the Protectorate during the pre-independence era. Rachel Cox-George died a year later in 2005, aged 72.