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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.

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.