John Richard Cockwell (born 1939) is a

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-born

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politician who served as a

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of the

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for the Camp constituency from

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until

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, and then as a member for the

Stanley constituency Stanley is a constituency of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands, Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands which has been in existence since the first elections in the Falklands in 1949 Falkland Islands general election, 1949. T ...

from

until

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

. Cockwell grew up in

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and attended Stanbridge Earls. He briefly worked as a shepherd on

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before moving to

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. He moved to the

in 1964 to work at Packe Brothers and Co limited in

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, becoming the company's Manager in 1967. He was elected to the

at the 1997 general election for the Camp constituency and re-elected four years later as a member for

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. He didn't seek re-election in

References

1939 births Living people Falkland Islands farmers Falkland Islands Councillors 1997–2001 Falkland Islands Councillors 2001–2005 Falkland Islands Councillors 2005–2009 Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{Falklands-stub