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COVERT, COCKQUERELL, elder son of Rev. Charles Randall Covert, Vicar of North Mundham, Sussex, and Martha, dau. of George Cockquerell, Heyshott, Sussex; b. 27 May 1709; adm. (aged 13) Aug 1722; apprenticed to Michael Thompson, citizen and mercer; adm. attorney, Common Pleas, 29 Oct 1732, and adm. solicitor, 27 May 1734; practised at Chichester; d. 5 May 1737.

Covington, Crescens Kingsley, son of Walter George Covington, C. V. O., of Ealham, secretary of Coutts' Bank, by his first wife, Jeanne, daughter of C. Robinson; b. Sept. 19, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (A); K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1913; served in France in the Great War; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. the Sherwood Foresters Oct. 25, 1916; Lieut. April 25, 1918; wounded at Dernancourt March 28, 1918, and lost his right leg; M.C. July 26, 1918; French Croix de Guerre Nov. 1917; director of the Civic Co. Ltd., Fulham Palace Road; m. Aug. 3, 1921, Rosalind Eve, daughter of Henry C. Merillier, of St. John's Wood, d. Oct. 25, 1947.

Covington, William Henry Walter, only son of the Rev. William Covington, Prebendary of St. Paul's and Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields, London; b. Aug. 8, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (G); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1890 (adm. pensr. June 17, 1890); B.A. 1893; d. July 10, 1894.

Cowan, Eric William Lindsay, only son of Sir William Henry Cowan, Kt., M. P., of Westminster, by Winifrede, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Edinburgh; b. Nov. 20, 1901; adm. from Rugby School Sept. 27, 1917 (R); left July 1920; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; m. April 22, 1925, Hylda Dorothea, elder daughter of J. H. Marlow, of Sedgebrook, Northampton; 31 Oct. 1959.

Cowan, Horatio Alexander, son of Horatio William Alexander Cowan, M. D., of St. Pancras, by Alma Beatrice, daughter of John Whaley, of Bayswater; b. Aug. 4, 1901; adm. April 29, 1915 (R); left July 1918; Univ. Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1924; practised in London and at Bournemouth; surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bournemouth.

COWDELL, HENRY SEWARD, son of Alfred Burton Cowdell, Croydon, Surrey, solicitor, and Helen --- (1881 Census); b. 5 Jun 1855; adm. (G) 23 Sep 1869, left Whitsun 1872; adm. solicitor May 1878; practised in Budge Row, London, firm Cowdell and Son; m. 1st, 2 Feb 1889 Ethel Bertha, dau. of Thomas Reid, Addiscombe, Surrey; m. 2nd, 4 Jun 1903 Georgina Checas, widow of Joseph Westwood MICE, Hampstead, Middlesex; d. 14 Aug 1924.

COWELL, ALARIC CARLISLE ANTROBUS, brother of Wilfrid Hammerton Antrobus Cowell (qv); b. 4 Apr 1869; adm. (H) 16 Jun 1881, left Dec 1885; d. in West Africa 11 Dec 1905, buried at Sekondi.

COWELL, GEORGE, son of George Cowell, London; b.; adm. Christmas 1811, left 1814; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1815; BA 1820; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1820 (London for Canterbury), priest 1821 (Canterbury); Curate, St. Michael, Crooked Lane, London, 1821. [Presumably George Cowell, son of George Cowell and Isabella ---, bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 22 Nov 1796 (IGI)]

COWELL, JOHN JERMYN, son of John Welsford Cowell, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, a clerk in Bank of England, and Frances Maberly (IGI); b. 30 Jan 1838; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (Rigaud's); QS 1852; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1856, adm. pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1860, called to bar 30 Apr 1864; Secretary, The Alpine Club; Cowell seems to have developed his fondness for climbing while at school, for he “climbed with another Westminster boy to the top of the Victoria Tower, which was then building, walked out to the end of a beam, projecting over London, and looked down” (Oscar Browning, Memoirs of Sixty Years, 39, 57, 58-61); d. 16 Dec 1867.