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.
COCKERELL, WILLIAM ACLAND, fifth son of Charles Robert Cockerell (qv); b. 27 Nov 1840; adm. 26 May 1853 (James'); 3rd cl. Junior Clerk, Foreign Office, 27 Jan 1860-4, 2nd cl. Junior Clerk 7 Sep 1864; acting 3rd Secy., Diplomatic Service, 19 Dec 1868, on temporary attachment to Embassy in Berlin; acting Assistant Clerk, 16 Feb 1874; Assistant Clerk, 1 Mar 1877; Senior Clerk, 7 Feb 1896; retd. 1 Jan 1906; m. 5 Jun 1877 Sidney Ada, third dau. of Richard Davies, The Vigia, Madeira; d. 12 Apr 1919.
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.
Cockin, Maurice Herbert Battle, son of Maurice Stanley Cockin, journalist, of Mortlake, Surrey, and Alys Grace. d. of Philip Gear of Bristol; b. 17 Nov. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (B), (A) Sept. 1930; left July 1933; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937, MA 1941; N. Borneo Admin. Service; bar student (Middle Temple) 1941; HQ. Intelligence Section 1st Canadian Divn (Capt.); despatches (posth.) Sicily May 1944; killed in action 1944.
Maurice Herbert Battle “Bat” Cockin was born at Mortlake, Surrey on the 17th of November 1915 the only son of Captain Maurice Stanley Cockin, a journalist, and Alice Grace (nee Gear) Cockin of Leyden House, Mortlake. He was christened at St Mary’s Church, Mortlake on the 16th of March 1916. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1929 and up Ashburnham from September 1930 to July 1933. He was a member of the Officers Training Corps where he achieved Certificate A. He went on to the University of Paris to study Arts from 1933 to 1934 and matriculated for Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1934 where he achieved a BA in 1937 and a MA in 1941. On leaving university he accepted a post with the North Borneo Administration Service where he was Private Secretary and Aide de Camp to the Governor of British North Borneo for nine months and was also appointed as a Magistrate. He returned to England where he studied law at the Middle Temple for two years but he enlisted in the army before he complete the course. He was fluent in German, French and Malay. He later moved to Ottawa, Canada where he worked as a civil servant for the British Government for the British Supply Board. He lived at Chateau Laurier, Ottawa.
He attended a medical examination on the 25th of May 1940 where it was recorded that he was six feet tall and that he weighed 158lbs. It was also noted that he had a dark complexion, brown eyes and brown hair. He attested for military service on the 27th of May 1940 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards on the 16th of April 1940. He was attached to the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, was promoted to Lieutenant on the 3rd of June 1940 and joined their Depot at Picton on the same day. He left the Depot on the 3rd of February 1941 for overseas service and embarked at Halifax the following day. He disembarked at Gourock, Scotland on the 1st of March 1941. He was promoted to Captain on the 14th of November 1942 and was appointed as an Intelligence Officer 2nd Class on the 5th of February 1943. He was attached to the Intelligence Section of the 1st Canadian Division Headquarters in Italy.
On the morning of the 20th of July 1943, Maurice Cockin and Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Albert Sutcliffe went out together for a reconnaissance of the enemy front lines near Monte Assoro. As the two men crouched in the open they were spotted by the crew of a German 88mm gun which was positioned on the high ground to their front. It fired at them over open sights, killing Bruce Sutcliffe instantly and seriously wounding Maurice Cocklin.
A fellow officer saw him when he was brought back to the Canadian lines and recalled: - “Bat Cockin was still alive when they brought him back. He was in great agony, and he had apparently been asking to see me, as he had something to tell me. He and Bruce Sutcliffe had been staring up at the great peak of Assoro, and the zig-zag road that ran up to the village of that name. Although he was pretty far gone, his speech suddenly came back to him with most remarkable clarity, and he grabbed my wrist and said, "John, for God's sake don't go up that road." I don't think he spoke again.”
He was collected by the 4th Canadian Divisional Field Ambulance which took him to No. 1 Field Dressing Station where he was treated for wounds to the lumbar region of his back and to his left arm. He was also suffering from shock. He died from his wounds at 11.15am the following day.
He was Mentioned in Despatches for “Distinguished and gallant services”, which was announced in the London Gazette of the 25th of March 1944.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Queens’ College, Cambridge and on the memorial at the Middle Temple
He is buried at Agira Canadian War Cemetery Plot C, Row G Grave 348.
COCKMAN, NEWELL, second son of Thomas Cockman, Mark Lane, London, and Mary Newell; bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 29 Jul 1725; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1739 (Bourne's); left 1741; apprenticed to James Momsey, Cheapside, London, attorney, 9 Apr 1742; adm. attorney, Common Pleas, 29 Nov 1750; m. 1747 Margaret Robinson; d. 8 Jun 1766.
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.
COCKRAN, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jul 1717.