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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.

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.

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.

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, 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, 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.

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”.

COKE, CLEMENT, only son of Robert Coke, Epsom, Surrey, and his cousin Theophila, youngest dau. of Arthur Coke, Bramfield, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS 1673; d. 8 Aug 1674, aged 17. Buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

COKE, D’EWES, eldest son of Rev. D’Ewes Coke, Brookhill Hall, Derbs. [check], Rector of Pinxton and of South Normanton, Derbs., and Hannah, dau. of George Heywood, Brimmington [check], Derbs.; b. 22 Dec 1774; adm. 13 Sep 1787; KS 1788; Glasgow Univ.; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jan 1792, matr. Lent 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 May 1789, called to bar 22 Jun 1797; Deputy Recorder of Grantham, 13 Mar 1803; Recorder of Newark; agent for Derbyshire estates of Duke of Rutland; of Brookhill Hall, Notts. [check]; DL JP Derbyshire, JP Notts.; m. 2 Nov 1797 Harriet, second dau. of Thomas Wright, Mapperley Hall, Notts.; d. 11 Mar 1856.

COKE, GEORGE; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).