Family
He married Anne Whetham on 18 June 1782, and had issue eleven children (five sons and six daughters). Of them, Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) became an architect; Richard Howe Cockerell (1798-1839) became a Captain RN, but died in Calcutta shortly before his projected return 1840. Richard's daughter Anna Theresa Cockerell (1836-1912) became Countess of Shrewsbury.
His elder brother Colonel John Cockerell (1752-1798) bought the land at Sezincote, and left it to their younger brother Charles (1755-1837) MP between 1802 and 1837, who became Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Bt on 25 September 1809, shortly after his 1808 remarriage to Hon. Harriet Rushout. Between 1805 and 1820, the Cockerell brothers designed and built Sezincote House together.
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