Samuel Pepys Cockerell

Samuel Pepys Cockerell, lawyer of Lincolns Inn, son of the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1754-1827) and brother of Charles Robert Cockerell, 'a far more distinguished architect than his father' (ODNB). Brother also of John Cockerell (q.v.). Together with the banker John Biddulph (q.v.), Cockerell was awarded the compensation for 10 estates belonging to James Colyear Dawkins (q.v.) in Jamaica. Although the two men are described as trustees in the Registers of Claims, Butler believes that they were mortgagees.

1. Death of Samuel Pepys Cockerell aged 75 registered Q1 1869 St George's Hanover Square. Will of Samuel Pepys Cockerell late of Lincolns inn and Hertford Street Mayfair who died 07/02/1869 at 45 Hertford Street proved 26/02/1869 by his nephew, effects under £10,000, resworn March 1871 under £18,000.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995), p. 55.

David Watkin, ‘Cockerell, Charles Robert (1788–1863)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004); online edn, Oct 2007 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5781 [accessed 29/10/2012].

1. FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1869.