Charles Cocks
1725 - 1806 (80 years)
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Name Charles Cocks Born 29 Jun 1725 Castleditch, Eastnor, Herefordshire 
[1] Christened 03 Jul 1725 Eastnor [1] Title (Facts Pg) 17 May 1784 Created Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham, co. Worcester [2] Died 30 Jan 1806 His House on Cavendish-square, London [3] Buried 11 Feb 1806 St. John the Baptist Church, Eastnor, Herefordshire [4] Person ID I00132 Eliots of Port Eliot Last Modified 16 Jun 2021
Father John Cocks, d. 24 Jun 1771 Mother Mary Cocks, d. 04 Feb 1779 Family ID F00283 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Wife 1 Elizabeth Eliot, b. 03 May 1739, Molenick, St. Germans, Cornwall , d. 01 Jan 1771, North Mymms, Hatfield, Hertfordshire (Age 31 years) 
Married08 Aug 1759 St. George, Hanover Square, London [5] Children 1. John Somers Cocks, b. 06 May 1760, Ince Castle, Cornwall , d. 05 Jan 1841, Brighton, Sussex (Age 80 years)2. Mary Judith Cocks, b. 02 Feb 1762, d. 06 Sep 1785 (Age 23 years) 3. Margaret Harriot Cocks, b. 28 May 1764, d. As an Infant 4. Edward Charles Cocks, b. 23 Jan 1767, Marseilles, France , d. 06 Aug 1781, Drowned at Westminster School, Westminster, London (Age 14 years)5. Charles Edward Cocks, b. 23 Jan 1767, Marseilles, France , d. Abt 26 Jan 1767, Marseilles, France (Age 0 years)6. Harriot Cocks, b. 29 Aug 1769, d. 11 Dec 1847, Her residence, Long Ditton, Surrey (Age 78 years)Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 Family ID F00046 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Wife 2 Anne Pole-Carew, b. 22 May 1752, d. 1833 (Age 80 years) Married 20 May 1772 [6] Children 1. Anna Maria Cocks, d. 27 Jul 1835 2. Philip James Cocks, b. 02 Dec 1774, d. 01 Apr 1857 (Age 82 years) 3. Reginald Cocks, b. 14 Jan 1777, d. 19 Nov 1805 (Age 28 years) Last Modified 16 Jun 2021 Family ID F00274 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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."
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Sources - "Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" edited by G.E. Cokdyne, 1896, Volume 7.
- "The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square", 1886, Vol. 11, Part 1, page 88.
- "The Monthly Magazine and British Register", page 177, Vol 21, 1806.
- [S00004] FMP Parish Records Collection, www.findmypast.co.uk, (Transcriptions of Parish Christenings, Marriages and Burials).
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- "Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" edited by G.E. Cokdyne, 1896, Volume 7.