John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers

(Redirected from John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers) British peer and Conservative politician

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.

References

"leighrayment.com – House of Commons, Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth-Rochdale". Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
"leighrayment.com – House of Commons, Haslemere-Herefordshire". Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

G. E. C., ed. Geoffrey F. White. The Complete Peerage. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1953) Vol. XII, Part 1, p. 33–34.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Eastnor

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byEdward Cocks James Cocks	Member of Parliament for Reigate 1812–1818 With: James Cocks	Succeeded bySir Joseph Sydney Yorke James Somers Cocks
Preceded byThomas Powell Symonds Richard Philip Scudamore	Member of Parliament for Hereford 1818–1832 With: Thomas Powell Symonds 1818–19 Richard Philip Scudamore 1819–26 Edward Clive 1826–32	Succeeded byEdward Clive Robert Biddulph
Preceded byJoseph Yorke Charles Yorke (representation reduced to one member 1832)	Member of Parliament for Reigate 1832–1841	Succeeded byViscount Eastnor
Honorary titles
Preceded byThe Lord Bateman	Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire 1845–1852	Succeeded byThe Lord Bateman
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded byJohn Somers Cocks	Earl Somers 1841–1852	Succeeded byCharles Somers Somers-Cocks

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1780s is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: