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 politician.

Somers was the second son of John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers

John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers

John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers , known as The Lord Somers between 1806 and 1821, was a British peer and politician.-Background and education:...

; his older brother Edward Charles Cocks

Edward Charles Cocks

Edward Charles Cocks was a British Army officer and politician.The eldest son of John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers, he was Member of Parliament for Reigate from 1806 to 1812....

 died in the Peninsular War

Peninsular War

The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its...

. He was educated at Westminster

Westminster School

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, entered the British Army and served in the Peninsula War. Somers sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Reigate

Reigate (UK Parliament constituency)

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 between 1812 and 1818 (succeeding his elder brother) and again between 1832 and 1841 and for Hereford

Hereford (UK Parliament constituency)

Hereford was, until 2010, a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1918, it had elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system....

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