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Cocks (surname)
Cocks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944) * Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers (1725–1806) *Charles Cocks, British 19th century wine enthusiast, author of ''Cocks & Féret'' * Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (1819–1883) *Clifford Cocks (born 1950), British cryptographer *Jay Cocks, film writer * John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers (1788–1852) * John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (1760–1841) *Richard Cocks, English trader in Japan in the seventeenth century *Robert Cocks, see Cocks baronets *Seymour Cocks (1882–1953), British Labour MP See also * Cock * Cox Cox or COX may refer to: Companies * Cox Enterprises, a media and communications company ** Cox Communications, cable provider ** Cox Media Group, a company that owns television and radio stations ** Cox Automotive, an Atlanta-based busines ... * Coxe * Coxen * Coxon {{surname, Cocks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers
Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, (20 March 1887 – 14 July 1944), was a British Army officer who was the 16th Governor of Victoria, from 1926 to 1931 and Administrator of Australia in 1930–31. He had a long involvement with the Boy Scout Movement and became the Boy Scouts Association's Chief Scout of the British Empire from 1942 until his death. Early life Somers was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the eldest son of Herbert Haldane Somers-Cocks and the former Blanche Clogstoun. His godfather was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Somers' father died when he was seven years old. He succeeded a distant relative as Baron Somers at the age of twelve. He attended Charterhouse School before going on to New College, Oxford. He was an able cricketer, and played 17 first-class games. In 1904, whilst a schoolboy at Charterhouse, he made 115 against Westminster,''Obituaries, 1944.'' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1945. and two years later he made his first-class debut f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers
Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers (29 June 1725 – 30 January 1806), known as Sir Charles Cocks, 1st Baronet, from 1772 to 1784, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1747 to 1784. Life Cocks was the son of John Cocks and his wife Mary Cocks who was his cousin and daughter of Thomas Cocks of Castleditch and was born on 29 June 1725. His paternal grandfather Charles Cocks was the husband of Mary Somers, sister of John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England. He matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1742 and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1745, where he was called to the bar in 1750. Cocks was elected Member of Parliament for Reigate in the 1747 general election and held the seat until 1784. He was appointed Clerk of Deliveries of the Ordnance from 1758 to 1772 and Clerk of the Ordnance from 1772 to 1782. He succeeded his father in 1771 and the following year was created a baronet of Dumbleton in the County of Gloucester, and on 17 May 178 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocks & Féret
''Cocks & Féret'', or simply ''Féret'', is the colloquial name of a Bordeaux wine directory originally created by Charles Cocks and Michel-Édouard Féret in 1846, which was published under the name ''Bordeaux, its Wines and the Claret Country'' and translated into French and published as the first edition of ''Bordeaux et ses vins'' in 1850.winepros.com.au. It is regarded as the classic reference work on Bordeaux wines, and is to date considered the most comprehensive information source on Bordeaux' wineries.winepros.com.au. amazon.co''Bordeaux and Its Wines'' 15th edition, Hugh Johnson preface/ref> History Jean-Baptiste Féret founded the publishing house La Librairie Féret in Bordeaux in 1812, which became Féret et fils in 1841. In 1846 Michel-Édouard Féret approached Charles Cocks, an English schoolmaster and wine enthusiast living in Bordeaux since 1840, to publish a directory of wine aimed at his compatriots. At 84 pages containing historical observations and assessme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers
Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (14 July 1819 – 26 September 1883), styled the Hon. Charles Cocks from 1819 to 1841 and Viscount Eastnor from 1841 to 1852, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party and then Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. Somers was the son of John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers, and his wife Lady Caroline Harriet, daughter of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. As a Conservative, he was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate (UK Parliament constituency), Reigate at a by-election in February 1841 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1847. In 1852 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1853 to 1855 in George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Aberdeen's Aberdeen ministry, coalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Cocks
Clifford Christopher Cocks (born 28 December 1950) is a British mathematician and cryptographer. In the early 1970s, while working at the United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he developed an early public-key cryptography (PKC) system. This pre-dated commercial offerings, but due to the classified nature of Cocks' work, it did not become widely known until 1997 when the work was declassified. As his work was not available for public review until 1997, it had no impact on numerous commercial initiatives relating to Internet security that had been commercially developed and that were well established by 1997. His work was technically aligned with the Diffie–Hellman key exchange and elements of the RSA algorithm; these systems were independently developed and commercialized. Education Cocks was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. He continued as a PhD stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Cocks
John C. "Jay" Cocks Jr. (born January 12, 1944) is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College.Some Notable Alumni , kenyon.edu; accessed August 28, 2015. He was a critic for ''Time (magazine), Time'', ''Newsweek'', and ''Rolling Stone'', among other magazines, before shifting to screenplay writing. For his work, Cocks has received three Academy Awards, Academy Award nominations: two for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, ''The Age of Innocence (1993 film), The Age of Innocence'' (1993) and ''A Complete Unknown'' (2024); and one for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, ''Gangs of New York'' (2002). Career As a screenwriter, he is notable for his collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, particularly ''The ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers
John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers (19 March 1788 – 5 October 1852), styled Viscount Eastnor between 1821 and 1841, was a British peer and Conservative Party politician. Somers was the second son of John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers; his older brother Edward Charles Cocks died in the Peninsular War. He was educated at Westminster, entered the British Army and served in the Peninsula War. Somers sat as Member of Parliament for Reigate between 1812 and 1818 (succeeding his elder brother) and again between 1832 and 1841 and for Hereford Hereford ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of the ceremonial county of Herefordshire, England. It is on the banks of the River Wye and lies east of the border with Wales, north-west of Gloucester and south-west of Worcester. With ... between 1818 and 1832. In 1841 he succeeded his father in the earldom. References *G. E. C., ed. Geoffrey F. White. The Complete Peerage. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1953) Vol. XII, Part 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers
John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers ( ; 6 May 1760 – 5 January 1841), known as the Lord Somers between 1806 and 1821, was a British peer and politician. Background and education Somers was the son of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Eliot. He was educated at Westminster and St Alban Hall, Oxford. Political career Somers sat as Member of Parliament for West Looe between 1782 and 1784, for Grampound between 1784 and 1790 and finally for Reigate between 1790 and 1806. The latter year he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords. In 1817 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, a post he held until his death in 1841. In 1821 he was created Earl Somers and accorded additional style Viscount Eastnor, of Eastnor Castle in the County of Hereford, to be the courtesy style of the eldest son of the Earl. Starting in the 1790s he had served with the Worcester Yeomen Cavalry. Family Lord Somers was twice married. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cocks
Richard Cocks (1565–1624) was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation until its bankruptcy and closure. Life in France He was baptised on 20 January 1565 at St Chad's, Seighford, Staffordshire, the fifth of the seven children of Robert Cocks of Stallbrook, yeoman, and his wife, Helen. He was apprenticed in London and became a member of the Clothworkers' Company. He moved to Bayonne in Southern France. In 1605, he was recruited by Thomas Wilson (record keeper), Sir Thomas Wilson as a spy, where he monitored the movements of Catholic Church in England and Wales, English Roman Catholic exiles who passed through the region on their way to Spain. After losing a large amount of money to a Portuguese con artist, he could no longer pay his English creditors and returned home in disgrace. His reputation at home was ruined and he decided to leave England to start a new life in Japan. Life in Japan Cocks sailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocks Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Cocks, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Cocks Baronetcy, of Dumbleton in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 7 February 1662 for Richard Cocks. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1765. The Cocks, later Somers-Cocks Baronetcy, of Dumbleton in the County of Gloucester, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 7 October 1772. For more information on this creation, see the Baron Somers. Cocks baronets, of Dumbleton (1662) The Cocks family of Castleditch, Eastnor, Herefordshire acquired Dumbleton by marriage in the sixteenth century and the manor passed to a junior branch of the family. On the death of the fourth baronet possession of the estate reverted to Charles Cocks esq. of Castleditch. *Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Cocks
Frederick Seymour Cocks, (25 October 1882 – 29 May 1953) was a British Labour MP. Born in Darlington, Cocks was educated at Plymouth College and became a journalist. He joined the Independent Labour Party and wrote several tracts for the party and for the Union of Democratic Control. He stood unsuccessfully for Maidstone at the 1923 general election. He was elected to the safe seat of Broxtowe at the 1929 general election. After World War II, it was revealed that he had been placed on the ' Special Search List G.B' of prominent subjects to be arrested by the Nazis had they succeeded in invading Britain. He was the author of a biography of fellow Labour Party member E. D. Morel, ''E.D. Morel, The Man and his work''. Cocks remained as the MP for Broxtowe until his death in Hendon Hendon is an urban area in the London Borough of Barnet, northwest London northwest of Charing Cross. Hendon was an ancient Manorialism, manor and parish in the county of Middlesex and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cock (surname)
The surname Cock is derived from the Dutch and Flemish surname ''de Cock'', alternately found as ''de Cook'' or ''de Kok'' and can be Anglicanised as Cook, and comes from the occupation of a cook. The name Cock is also a variant spelling of Cox, which is of Old English or Welsh origin, and developed independently of the Dutch and Flemish name. Notable persons * Adam Gates (aka Bob C. Cock), composer, musician, Primus roadie and producer * Christopher Cock, auctioneer of the eighteenth century * Edward Cock, British surgeon * Geoffrey Hornblower Cock (1896–1980), British World War I flying ace * Gerald Cock, first director of BBC television * Hieronymus Cock (also Kock), Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver * Jack Cock (John Gilbert Cock), English footballer * James Cock (1833–1901), politician in South Australia, son of Robert * Martin Cock, stage name of American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock * Matthys Cock Flemish painter * Robert Cock (1801–1871), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
