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COCKS, JOHN SOMERS, 1ST EARL SOMERS, elder son of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers, Clerk of the Ordnance, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Eliot MP, Port Eliot, Cornwall; b. 6 May 1760; adm. 13 Jan 1774; left 1777; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 26 Jan 1778; MP West Looe 20 Feb 1782-4, Grampound 1784-90, Reigate 1790 - 30 Jan 1806; succ. father as 2nd Baron Somers 30 Jan 1806; Lord Lieut., Herefordshire, from 28 Oct 1817; cr. Earl Somers 17 Jul 1821; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; m. 1st, 19 Mar 1785 Margaret, only dau. of Rev. Treadway Russell Nash DD, and niece of Richard Treadway Nash (qv); m. 2nd, 3 Jun 1834 his cousin Jane, widow of Rev. George Waddington, Rector of Northwold, Norfolk, and dau. of James Cocks, banker, London; d. 5 Jan 1841.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.