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John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers

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After his first wife's death in February 1831, he married as his second wife his first cousin, Jane, daughter of James Cocks and widow of Reverend George Waddington, in 1834. They had no children. Somers died in January 1841, aged 80, and was succeeded in his titles by his second but eldest surviving
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between 1790 and 1806. The latter year he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the
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Lord Somers was twice married. He married as his first wife Margaret, daughter of Reverend
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Starting in the 1790s he had served with the Worcester Yeomen Cavalry.
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between 1806 and 1821, was a British peer and politician.
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thepeerage.com John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Sommers
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John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers
The Right Honourable

Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire
George III
George IV
William IV
Victoria
The Earl of Essex
The Lord Bateman
British
Alma mater
St Alban's Hall, Oxford
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Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers
Westminster
St Alban Hall, Oxford
Member of Parliament
West Looe
Grampound
Reigate
House of Lords
Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire
Treadway Russell Nash
Edward Charles Cocks
Siege of Burgos
Peninsular War
Duke of Wellington
John

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