Person:John Somers-Cocks (1)

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John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers
b.19 Mar 1788
d.5 Oct 1852
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Edward Charles Cocks1786 - 1812
  2. John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers1788 - 1852
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  1. Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers1819 - 1883
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Name John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers
Gender Male
Birth[1] 19 Mar 1788
Marriage to Lady Caroline Harriet Yorke
Death[1] 5 Oct 1852
Reference Number? Q6258484?


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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 between 1818 and 1832. In 1841 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

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