# Cocks baronets

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There have been two **baronetcies** created for persons with the surname **Cocks**, one in the [Baronetage of England](/source/Baronetage_of_England) and one in the [Baronetage of Great Britain](/source/Baronetage_of_Great_Britain). One creation is extant as of 2008.

The **Cocks Baronetcy**, of [Dumbleton](/source/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](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)). 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](/source/Baron_Somers).

## Cocks baronets, of Dumbleton (1662)

The Cocks family of Castleditch, [Eastnor, Herefordshire](/source/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.[1]

- Sir Richard Cocks, 1st Baronet (c. 1602–1684) was the second son of Richard Cocks of Castleditch.[1] He married Susanna, daughter of Ambrose Elton of [Ledbury](/source/Ledbury), Herefordshire and his wife Anne, a daughter of [Sir Edward Aston](/source/Edward_Aston_(died_1598)) of [Tixall](/source/Tixall), Staffordshire. As a young man he was part of a diplomatic mission to Muscovy, but thereafter lived the life of a country gentleman, serving as a justice of the peace and as high sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1665–6.[2] He was created a baronet in 1666.[1]
- [Sir Richard Cocks, 2nd Baronet](/source/Sir_Richard_Cocks,_2nd_Baronet) (c. 1659–1726)
- Sir Robert Cocks, 3rd Baronet (c. 1660–1736) was a younger brother of the second baronet. Educated at Oriel college, Oxford and the Middle Temple, he became a fellow of Brasenose in 1681. Having acquired his doctorate, he became rector of [Great Rollright](/source/Great_Rollright) in 1695 and [Woodstock](/source/Woodstock) in 1715.[3] He married Anne Fulks of Oxford with whom he had 7 sons and 5 daughters.[1] He succeeded his brother as baronet in 1726.
- Sir Robert Cocks, 4th Baronet (died 1765) succeeded his father in 1736, his three elder brothers having died without issue. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Cholmeley of [Easton, Lincolnshire](/source/Easton,_Lincolnshire).[4] His wife and 3 children died within a few days of each other 'by a cruel distemper' in 1748, while he died of a fall from his horse.[2]

## Cocks, later Somers-Cocks baronets, of Dumbleton (1772)

- see the [Baron Somers](/source/Baron_Somers)

## References

1. Rudder, Samuel (1779). *A New History of Gloucestershire*. 2006 facsimile ed. pp. 420–1.

1. Frith, Brian (1990). *Bigland's Gloucestershire Collections*. pp. 520–1.

1. ["'Chocke-Colepeper', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714"](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp274-303). *British History online*. Retrieved 2 February 2022.

1. Collins, Arthur (1741). *The English Baronetage*. p. 360.

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