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COFFIN, ROGER; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1553 (Chapter Muniments); see Acts of the Privy Council, New Series, vol. iv, 78, for a letter to the Dean and Chapter dated 14 Jun 1552, requesting them “to place Roger Coffin, late one of the childerne of the Chapell, in the rome of one of the Kinges Majesties schollers in the grammer schole there, to be trayned up in learning, being removed from the Chappell for that his brest is chaunged”.

COCKS, WALTER CAREW, fourth son of Thomas Somers Cocks (b. 1781, qv); b. 10 Mar 1824; adm. 5 Oct 1836 (Benthall's); QS 1838; left 1840; a clerk in the Audit Office; Auditor, India Office, Aug 1874 - Dec 1894; a Busby Trustee from 18 May 1886; m. 30 Oct 1856 Isabella Susan, third dau. of Right Hon. Sir Edward Hall Alderson PC, Baron of the Exchequer; d. 31 Dec 1898.

Cocks, Theodore Edward Eagles, son of the Rev. Edward George Cocks, Vicar of Cornwood, South Devon, by Lottie Sarah, daughter of William French, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent; b. Nov. 23, 1901; adm. as K.S. Sept. 23, 1915; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1920, matric. Michaelmas 1920; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1922; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1924; B.A. 1924; M.A. 1928; asst. master at Radley College Sept. 1924; at Spyway, Langton Matravers, Dorset, 1962.

COCKS, EDWARD CHARLES, brother of John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (qv); b. 23 Jan 1767; adm. 10 Sep 1777; KS 1779; drowned while bathing in the Thames 6 Aug 1781.

Cocks, Adrian Harry William James, brother of Theodore Edward Eagles Cocks (q.v.); b. Nov. 7, 1904; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1918; left Dec. 1922; R.A.F. Cadet College, Cranwell, Lincs, 1923-4; General Duties Branch of R.A.F. Dec. 16, 1924; Pilot Officer R.A.F., Dec. 17, 1924; Flying Officer June 17, 1926; Flight-Lieut. May 14, 1930; St. Catharine's Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1930; B.A. 1932; Sqdn.-Ldr. April 1, 1937; transferred to Technical Branch April 24, 1940; temp. Wing-Cdr. June 1, 1940; Acting Group Capt. 1943; retired Nov. 6, 1956, with rank of Group Capt.; employed with British Cellophane Ltd.; m. 1st June 30, 1931, Esme Maud, daughter of John Marshall Leonard, of Southsea, Hants; 2nd July 28, 1944, Annie Theresa, daughter of Alexander Herbert Pirie, of Winscombe, Somerset.

COCKRAINE (or COCKRAM), PHINEAS, son of William Cockram, Fressingfield, Suffolk, and Margaret Baldrye (IGI); bapt. Fressingfield 15 Aug 1591; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1611, adm. scholar 1612, adm. Easter 1612; BA 1615/6; MA 1619; ordained deacon (Lichfield), priest (London) 24 Sep 1620, aged 25; Curate, All Hallows, Bread Street, London; Vicar of Easton Maudit, Northants., from 21 Apr 1623; m. 15 Sep 1624 [or 1623 ?] Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Christopher Spicer, Rector of Cogenhoe, Northants.; d. 1636.

COCKES (or COX), GEORGE, eldest son of George Cockes, Lambeth, Surrey, one of the Keepers of the Privy Council Chamber; b.; adm. 1629; KS 1631; recommended by King Charles I in a letter dated 10 May 1633 to the Dean and Sub-Dean of Christ Church “for election as a student of Christ Church at the next election” (CSP Dom 1633-4, 52, and 387 (father’s petition to Lord Cottington, Chancellor of the Exchequer); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1633, matr. 29 Nov 1633, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1641.

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.

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)]

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. ).