Cocks (surname)
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Cocks is a surname, and may refer to:
- Arthur CocksArthur CocksArthur F. Cocks was an Australian cricket Test match umpire.He umpired one Test match between Australia and England at Adelaide on 2–8 February 1951. Australia won comfortably with Arthur Morris scoring 206, Jim Burke scoring a century in his first Test, and Bill Johnston taking 7 wickets. Cocks'...
, Australian cricket umpire - Charles Cocks, British 19th century wine enthusiast, author of Cocks & FéretCocks & FéretCocks & Féret or simply Féret, is the colloquial name of a Bordeaux wine directory originally created by Charles Cocks and Michel-Édouard Féret in 1846, which was published under the name Bordeaux, its Wines and the Claret Country and translated into French and published as the first edition of...
- Clifford CocksClifford CocksClifford Christopher Cocks, CB, is a British mathematician and cryptographer at GCHQ.He invented the widely-used encryption algorithm now commonly known as RSA, about three years before it was independently developed by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman at MIT...
, British cryptographer - Jay CocksJay CocksJay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing....
, film writer - Richard CocksRichard CocksRichard Cocks was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation, and lasting to its closure due to bankruptcy....
, English trader in Japan in the seventeenth century
- Charles Cocks, 1st Baron SomersCharles Cocks, 1st Baron SomersCharles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers , known as Sir Charles Cocks, 1st Baronet, from 1772 to 1784, was a British politician....
(1725–1806) - John Sommers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (1760–1841)
- John Somers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers (1788–1852)
- Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (1819–1883)
- Philip Reginald Cocks, 5th Baron Somers (1815–1899)
- Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944)
- Arthur Percy Somers Cocks, 7th Baron Somers (1864–1953)
- John Patrick Somers Cocks, 8th Baron Somers (1907–1995)
- Philip Sebastian Somers-Cocks, 9th Baron Somers (born 1948)
See also
- CockCock (surname)The surname Cock is derived from the Dutch and Flemish surname de Cock, alternately found as de Cook or de Kok and can be Anglicanised as Cook, and comes from the occupation of a cook....
- CoxCox (surname)The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several locations in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. An early record of the surname dates from 1556 with the marriage of Alicea Cox at St. Martin in the Fields,...
- CoxeCoxeCoxe is a surname, and may refer to:*Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., American federal judge*Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr., American federal judge*Arthur Cleveland Coxe, American bishop, son of Samuel Hanson Cox*Daniel Coxe, English governor of West Jersey...
- Coxen
- CoxonCoxonCoxon is a surname, and may refer to:*Alec Coxon, English cricketer*Graham Coxon, English musician*John Coxon * John Coxon, member of English band Spring Heel Jack-See also:* Cock* Cocks* Cox* Coxe* Coxen...