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COCK, ROBERT, only son of Francis Cock, Norwich, and ---, dau. of Ralph Blennerhasset, Pockthorpe, Norwich; b.; adm.; KS 1680; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1685, matr. 17 Dec 1685, aged 18, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1685 - void 1707, expiry year of grace as V. Chippenham from 1 Sep 1705; BA 1689; MA 1692; Master of the Grammar School at Christ Church, Oxford; ordained; Vicar of Chippenham, Wilts., 1705-16, when he resigned as a non-juror; subsequently a schoolmaster in Chippenham; m.; d. 4 Oct 1724, aged 57 (M. I. Chippenham, Wilts. ).

Cock, Roland Henry Leibreich, eldest son of Alfred Cock, Q. C., of Kensington, by Eva Laura, only child of Richard Friedrich Leibriech, M. D., M.R.C.S.; b. July 1, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (H); left July 1901; at Tonbridge School 1901-4; an architect; m.

COCKAYNE, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Mildmay Cockayne, Exon of Yeomen of the Guard, and Mary Anne Jones; b.; adm. 20 Apr 1773; left Whitsun 1780; Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 3 Mar 1780, matr. Lent 1782; BA 1784; MA 1788; BD and DD 1813; ordained deacon (Bristol, lit. dim. from London) 12 Mar 1786, priest 6 Jul 1788; Curate, Stapleton, Gloucs. 1787; opened a school at Stapleton Court, Gloucs. 1787; Vicar of Burnham, Essex, 1796-1826; Rector of Dogmersfield, Hampshire, from 25 Nov 1826; m. 1st, 26 Jan 1792 Frances Devey, schoolmistress, Stapleton, Gloucs.; m. 2nd, 11 Dec 1828 Charlotte, youngest dau. of Robert Bayard, Stubbington House, Hampshire; d. 17 Dec 1829.

COCKBURN, ALEXANDER; b.; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1734; left 1736. [Could this have been Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bart., only son of Alexander Cockburn, Langton, Berwickshire, and Mary, sister of Hon. Colin Campbell (qv); succ. grandfather as 5th baronet 1739; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Sep 1744; killed at battle of Fontenoy 30 Apr 1745]

COCKBURN, THOMAS, son of James Cockburn MD, Kingston, Jamaica, and Sarah ---; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1722; Min. Can. 1723; KS 1724; left 1727; a physician at York; subsequently Physician, Greenwich Hospital (Chamberlayne 1748); a friend of Charles Wesley (qv); m. 1st, 1737 Prudence Lewis; m. 2nd, 1740 Rachel Moore, widow; m. 3rd, 23 Oct 1747 (IGI), at Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Sarah Drinkwater; d. 1763. [Thomas Cockburn, “late Doctor of Physic now Lodger”, St. James, Westminster, will proved PCC 6 Nov 1769 (sic)]

COCKBURN-MUIR, CHARLES, son of William J. Cockburn Muir, civil engineer, Gratton Road, Middlesex, and Jane Emily --- (1881 Census); b. 17 Mar 1858; adm. 22 Jan 1874; left Christmas 1875; “despatch clerk, New York Associated Press” (1881 census).

COCKER, GEORGE THOMAS, son of Barnard Cranston Cocker, Nassau Street, Soho, solicitor, and Margaret --- (IGI); b. 25 (or 18) Sep 1808; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1817; left 1823. [presumably m. Hannah --- (IGI)]

COCKER, SAXON JAMES NICHOLAS; b. 22 Aug 1806; adm. (G) 9 Oct 1817; left 1823; d. 25 Jan 1831. Buried Protestant Cemetery, Florence, Italy. [Presumably an elder brother of George Thomas Cocker (qv)]

COCKERELL, SAMUEL PEPYS, seventh son of Charles Robert Cockerell (qv); b. 19 Dec 1844; adm. 27 Jan 1857 (James'); QS 1858; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1862, matr. 12 Jun 1862; BA 1866; an artist; edited his father’s Journal of Travels in Southern Europe and the Levant 1810-1817, 1903; m. 13 Aug 1878 his cousin Anne Frances, dau. of Capt. Henry Craufurd RN; d. 12 Mar 1921.

COCKERELL, CHARLES ROBERT, second son of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Westbourne Lodge, Paddington, architect and Surveyor to East India Co., and Anna, dau. of John Whettam, St. Ives, Hunts.; b. 28 Apr 1788; adm. 29 Apr 1802 (Clapham); Min. Can. 1802; in school list Oct 1803; entered his father’s office at age of 16; in office of Sir Robert Smirke 1809-10; on architectural study tour in Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy 1810-7; participated in discovery of Aeginetan and Phigaleian Marbles; commenced architectural practice on return to England; Surveyor, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1819-54; ARA 1829, RA 1836, Professor of Architecture at Royal Academy 1839-57; architect to Bank of England, 1833; “at once the most fastidious and the least pedantic of English neo-classical architects” (Colvin); his principal architectural works included the University Library, Cambridge, 1837-40, the Ashmolean Museum and Taylorian Institution, Oxford, 1841-2, and a series of provincial branch buildings for the Bank of England; DCL Oxford 20 Jun 1844; completed the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1845-7, and the interior of St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 1851-4; Hon FRIBA 9 May 1836, FRIBA 3 Dec 1849, President 1860-1, Gold Medallist 1848; FSA by 1831; member, Society of Dilettanti, 1858; designed the scenery for the Westminster Latin Play, painted under his superintendence by Fenton and used for the first time in 1857; retired from practice 1859; author, The Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina, and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, 1860, and other works; m. 4 Jun 1828 Anna Maria, dau. of John Rennie FRS, civil engineer; d. 17 Sep 1863 and buried St. Paul’s Cathedral. DNB.