John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers

British politician
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Quick Facts

IntroBritish politician
A.K.A.John Somers
A.K.A.John Somers
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1788
Death1 January 1852 (aged 64 years)
Politics:Conservative Party
Family
Father:John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers
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Biography

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; his older brother Edward Charles Cocks died in the Peninsular War. He was educated at Westminster, entered the British Army and served in the Peninsula War. Somers sat as Member of Parliament for Reigate between 1812 and 1818 (succeeding his elder brother) and again between 1832 and 1841 and for Hereford between 1818 and 1832. In 1841 he succeeded his father in the earldom.

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