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

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politician. Somers was the second son of

John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers John Somers Cocks, 1st Earl Somers (6 May 1760 – 5 January 1841), known as The Lord Somers between 1806 and 1821, was a British peer and politician. Background and education Somers was the son of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers, and Elizabet ...

; his older brother Edward Charles Cocks died in the

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. He was educated at

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

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for

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

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

References

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

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