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 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 Elizab ...

; 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 Member of Parliament for

Reigate Reigate ( ) is a town status in the United Kingdom, town in Surrey, England, around south of central London. The settlement is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Cherchefelle'', and first appears with its modern name in the 1190s. The ea ...

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, pp. 33–34.

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* 1788 births 1852 deaths 2 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 Somers, E2 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Tory MPs (pre-1834) {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1780s-stub