COLE, GEORGE, son of George Cole, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1715/6; Min. Can. 1721; KS 1722; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1726, adm. pens. 10 Jun 1726, scholar 14 Apr 1727; BA 1729/30. [perhaps son of George Cole, Clerk without Doors, House of Commons]

COLBATCH, JOSEPH; b. 1669; adm. ; KS 1686 (as Colebatch); left 1689; d. 1735. [“see new slip”] [perhaps Rev. Joseph Colbatch, Anglican clergyman, All Hallows parish, Maryland, buried 13 Jan 1734, in Maryland by 1704]

COLBATCH, JOHN, son of John Colbatch, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Jane ---; bapt. 27 Dec 1663; adm.; KS 1680; rejected 1682, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1683, aged 18, scholar 10 Apr 1684; BA 1686/7; MA 1690; BD 1701; DD 1706; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1689-90, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1690-1715, Senior Fellow from 1715; ordained priest (London) 20 Dec 1691; Chaplain to British Factory, Lisbon 1688 [check]-96; a protege of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury; tutor, Trinity Coll., 1700, Senior Dean 1705-7; travelling tutor in Italy with Earl of Hertford (later 7th Duke of Somerset) 1706; Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Theology, Cambridge, 1707-44; an opponent of Richard Bentley in internal Trinity College disputes, becoming involved in several resulting lawsuits; Prebendary of Salisbury 7 Aug 1702 - res May 1720; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1720; author, three pamphlets; d. 11 Feb 1747/8. DNB.

COKER, HEARST, second son of Rev. Thomas Coker, Bicester, Oxfordshire, Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of William Hearst, Salisbury; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 28 May 1719, but died before his admission as a Westminster Student; adm. Inner Temple 16 Apr 1719; d. 5 Nov 1719.

COKE, SIR WILLIAM, brother of D’Ewes Coke (qv); bapt. South Normanton, Derbs., 12 Feb 1776 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 13) 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 - void 25 Jun 1806; BA 1798; MA 1801; adm. to Lincoln’s Inn 1 Feb 1798, called to bar 15 May 1801; Procurator Fiscal, Ceylon, 1808-9; Puisne Judge, Ceylon, 6 Oct 1809, later Chief Justice; knighted 25 May 1815; d. unm. at Trincomalee 1 Sep 1818, aged 42.

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

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, 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.

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.