Family
He was the son of Sydney John Cockerell (1842-1877) and Alice Elizabeth Bennett. The bee expert Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948), who settled in the United States, was his brother, as was the book binder, Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870–1945). The inventor Christopher Cockerell was his son, and bookbinder extraordinaire, Sydney Maurice Cockerell, was his nephew.
He was married to the illuminator and designer Kate Cockerell, who in 1916 was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. They had three children.
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