Mary married John Cocks in 1724. John (son of Charles Cocks and Mary Somers) died on 24 Jun 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Title (Facts Pg): 17 May 1784, Created Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham, co. Worcester

Notes:

--- "The Scots Magazine" 01 Jun 1771, page 54:
At Castleditch, Herefordshire, John Cocks, Esq; nephew, and sold heir of the great John Lord Sommers. His eldest son Charles, member for Ryegate, succeeds to an estate of 12,000 l. a year.

--- Taken from "The Monthly Magazine and British Register", page 177, Vol 21, 1806:
"At his house in Cavendish-square, the right honourable Charles Cocks, Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham, having attained the age of 80 years, during 59 of which he was a member of one or other house of parliament; and by his conduct there always endeavoured, agreeably to his own sentiments, to support and strengthen the constitution of his country. His father, John, died representative and heir of Charles Lord Somers, being the only surviving male descendant of Charles Cocks, esq., by his wife, the only sister of the Lord Chancellor, who left issue; and in the year 1784 his majesty was pleased to revive in the person of the late lord the title of his great ancestor. His lordship married, first Elizabeth Eliot, sister of the late lord E., and afterwards Anne Pole, sister of the right honourable Reginald Pole Carew, of Anthony, in the county of Cornwall. He is succeeded in his title and estate by his eldest son, John Somers Cocks."

Charles married Elizabeth Eliot on 08 Aug 1759 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Eliot and Harriot Craggs) was born on 03 May 1739 in Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall; was christened on 03 May 1739 in St. German's Church, St. Germans, Cornwall,; died on 01 Jan 1771 in North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire; was buried on 08 Jan 1771 in St. Mary's Church, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Anne Pole-Carew on 20 May 1772. Anne (daughter of Reginald Pole and Anne Buller) was born on 22 May 1752; died in 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Thornlloe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

11 Downing Street has been the official residence of the Second Lord of the Treasury since 1828, and thus the residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Before that, from 1772, it was the home of Thomas Somers Cocks.

Thomas married Ann Thistlethwayte on 29 Aug 1768. Ann was born about 1746; died on 25 Dec 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Kentish Gazette" 26 Mar 1785, page 3:
MARRIAGES.
Saturday, by a special licence, at Bevere, in the county of Worcester, the Hon. John Sommers Cocks, to Miss Nash, only daughter of the Rev. C. Nash, of Bevere.

--- "Worcester Journal" Thursday, 21 Jan 1841:
"Death of Earl Somers. This Noble Earl, who was in his 81st years, died at Brighton yesterday (Tuesday) morning, soon after six o'clock.. His lordship took a carriage airing on Monday afternoon, and after dinner complained of serious illness. He was ill during the night, and shortly after six o'clock he requested to be taken out of bed and placed in a chair, when he almost immediately expired."

Family/Spouse: Jane Cocks. Jane died on 23 Nov 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Nash on 19 Mar 1785 in Bevere, Worcester. Margaret died on 09 Feb 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "The Gentleman's Magazine" Vol. 58, 1785, page 750:
[Sept.] 7. The hon. Mary-Judith Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers, in her 23d year.

--- "The European Magazine: And London Review" Volume 8, 1785, page 241:
[Sept.] 7. Miss Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers.

--- "Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette" 15 September 1785, page 2:
Died. The Hon. Miss Cocks, eldest daughter of Lord Somers.

--- MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION:
Near to each other within this Chancel lie buried the remains of Mrs Elizabeth COCKS, Mrs Harriet NEAL and the Honorable Mary Judith COCKS. The two former were daughters of Richard ELIOT Esq. sisters of Edward Lord ELIOT. They both experienced sufferings which they bore with fortitude and RESIgnation and through the whole of their lives their conduct was such as rendered them deservedly loved by their relations and friends and respected by the world. Mary Judith COCKS was the eldest daughter of Charles, Lord SOMMERS by his first wife Elizabeth above mentioned. She had lively parts, a good understanding and the best of dispositions and died of a violent and sudden disorder in the bloom of youth. Universally esteemed and lamented.

[Above the memorial tablet there are three urns. Each of which has a separate inscription. The inscriptions are as follows:]

E.C. obit. Jan. 1 1771 aet. 31
M.J.C. obit Sept. 6 1785 aet. 23
H.N. obit Jan. 22 1776 aet. 45

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Drowning

Notes:

--- "Salisbury and Winchester Journal", 13 Aug 1781, page 1:
Yesterday afternoon as the son of Sir Chgarles Cocks, Bart. was stepping suddenly from a small boat, to get upon one of the coal lighters, near the Horse-ferry, Westerminster, his foot slipped, and he fell into the river; and notwithstanding instant assistance from each side the Thames was procured, the body was not found for a considerable time. Every experience for the recovery of drowned persons was immediately used, but without effect. The above unfortunate youth was upon the foundation at Westminster-school.

--- "Peerage of England" Vol 8, Arthur Collins, 1812, pages 25-26:
. . . Fifth, Edward Charles, for whom an elegant monument is erected in Eastnor church, with this inscription:

Within this chancel
are interred the remains of
EDWARD CHARLES COCKS
a youth of 14 years of age,
unfortuantely drowned at Westminster school,
unfortunately for his friends,
not for himself;
for he was innocent and good,
his faults and frailties trivial;
to him, therefore, to be taken out of this world must be happiness,
Through the merits of CHRIST JESUS,
his Lord and Saviour,
of whose blessed sacrament he was partaker
the day before his death.
To his father, and his friends who knew him,
he was deservedly dear;
(at school universally beloved)
to his elder brother
he was almost every thing that could be wished.
His brother now erects to his memory
this monument,
as a sincere testimony of his love, his esteem,
and his high opinion of him.

J. Sommers Cocks.

He was third son of Sir Charles Cocks,Bart. of
Castle-ditch, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Eliot, Esq. of Port Eliot, in the county of Cornwall.
His mother was delivered of two sons at one birth,
on the 23d of January 1767,
At Marseilles, in France, of whom the elder,
Charles Edward, died a few days after he
first saw the light, and was buried at that place;
the younger Edward Charles
grew as a lily in the field.
The last day of his life in this world,
was the 6th of August 1781.

Thy will, O God! be done.

--- http://emuseum.huntington.org/view/objects/asitem/People$00403270/0?t:state:flowc8069ae5-3464-4a0b-a286-74a9498b59ab
In 1781 Margaret Cocks's uncle, Lord Somers, commissioned Romney to paint a portrait of his eldest son, John Somers Cocks, on the occasion of his twentieth birthday. But the painting was subsequently altered to make it commemorate the drowning death of a younger brother which occurred two days after the last sitting. Romney represented the heir leaning on a stone pillar, holding a lock of hair in his left hand, with an envelope at his feet inscribed "Edward Charles Cocks's hair/ August 6th 1781."

Notes:

--- "London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 ":
(Westminster, St. Marylebone, 1764-1774, 120)
1769 Sept 21. Harriot Cocks of Charles and Eliz.: born 29th Ult.

---- "Hereford Times" Saturday, 18 December 1847, page 5:
Dec. 11, at her residence, Long Ditton, Surrey, the Hon. Harriet Cocks, aged 78, sister of the late Earl Somers.

Family/Spouse: Philip Yorke. Philip was born on 24 Feb 1770; died on 29 May 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Frances Herbert on 29 Nov 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Cocks. Anne (daughter of James Cocks) died on 19 Mar 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Reginald Cocks. Reginald (son of Charles Cocks and Anne Pole-Carew) was born on 14 Jan 1777; died on 19 Nov 1805. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Banker (Cocks and Biddulphs)
• Residence: 43 Charing Cross, London

Thomas married Agneta Pole-Carew on 24 Oct 1813 in St. George, Hanover Square, London. Agneta (daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew and Jemima Yorke) was born on 18 May 1791 in Charles Street, Berkeley Square; died on 14 Sep 1836 in Harley Street, London; was buried on 16 Sep 1836 in Kensal Green Cemetery, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

--- "Leicester Journal" 30 Oct 1812, page 4
WAR DEPARTMENT.--- Downing-street,
October 25.
A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, has been this day received at Earl Bathurst's office, addressed to his Lordship by General the Marquess of Wellington, dated Villa Toro, 11th of October, 1812.

The enemy have made two sorties on the head of the sap, between the exterior and interior lines of the Castle of Burgos, in both of which they materially injured our works, and we suffered some loss. In the last, at three in the morning of the 8th, we had the misfortune to lose the Hon. Major Cocks, of the 79th, who was Field-officer of the trenches, and was killed in the act of rallying the troops who had been driven in. I have frequently had occasion to draw your Lordship's attention to the conduct of Major Cocks, and in one instance very recently, in the attack of the hornwork ofthe Castle of Burgos, and I consider his loss as one of the greatest importance to this army and to his Majesty's service

John married Caroline Harriet Yorke in 1815. Caroline (daughter of Philip Yorke and Elizabeth Scot Lindsay) was born in 1794; died on 27 May 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married Philip Allen on 07 Oct 1847. Philip was born on 15 Apr 1823; died in Jun 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Frances Mercy Bromley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]