Mr. Cox was the son of Jessie Bancroft Cox, the redoubtable family matriarch who died in 1982 on the 100th anniversary of Dow Jones's founding.

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It was at this 16th Century estate, in 1969, that Brian Jones, guitarist and founding member of the Rolling Stones, was discovered floating face down in his pool, a month after band mates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had booted him from the band.

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Alfred Winslow Jones is widely credited with founding the first hedge fund, in 1949.

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