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George Edward Adams Cokayne

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Name George Edward Adams Cokayne Birth 29 Apr 1825 Bloomsbury, London Address:
64 Russell SquareGender Male Occupation 16 Jan 1850 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Middlesex, England Law student Education 1852 Oxford, Oxfordshire MA Name Change 15 Aug 1873 Assumed surname Cokayne Occupation 1894 Clarenceux King of Arms Residence 2 Apr 1911 Wandsworth, London Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head Death 6 Aug 1911 Exeter House, Roehampton, London Burial 9 Aug 1911 Cemetery, Putney Vale, Surrey Notes - From 1873 he was Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms, 4th son of William Adams and brother of Louisa Anne, Lady Aldenham. Baptised 20 June 1825 at St. George's Bloomsbury. Educated privately. Matric. Oxford (Exeter College) 6 June 1844; BA 1848, MA 1852.
Barrister (Lincoln's Inn) 1853. Entered The College of Arms, 1859; Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, 1859-69; Lancaster Herald, 1870; Norroy King of Arms, 1882; Clarenceux King of Arms, 1894-1911. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1866-1911. By Royal Licence, 1873, took the name Cokayne in lieu of Adams under the testamentary direction of his mother, Louisa Anne Adams of Thorpe.
Member of Nobody's Friends, 1850-84 (secretary 1869-84, hon-member 1884-1911).
Author of The Complete Peerage (8 vols., pub. 1887-98)—see VII, n22; The Complete Baronetage, 1611-1800 (5 vols. published 1900-06) and of other Genealogical Works; also Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601-25, published 1897, and Memoirs of the Members of Nobody's Friends 1st vol. privilege printed 1885, reprinted 1920; 2nd vol. 1902. Residences—sometime, up to 1868-92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington (number since changed); Ashbourne House, Putney, 1868-85; Exeter House, Roehampton, 1885-1911. For his "royal descent" see entry for his mother Louisa Anne Adams; (for his wife's see also entry for George Abraham Gibbs and the Right Hon. Sir Vicary Gibbs). His life is in Dictionary National Biography (vol. I of 2nd supplement).
Buried 9 August 1911 at Putney Vale Cemetery. Will proved 1 September 1911.
Portraits: pastel by Edward Havel (1887?); min. in Herald's (Norroy) uniform, 1890, both last in possession of his son Francis.
Oil 3/4, seated, by C. Kay Robertson (1901); crayon head by E. U. Eddis (1859); water-colour, small, by "Mr. Foster" (c. 1836); oil, ? reproduced from the last; all four last in possession of his son Lord Cullen.
Person ID I1629 Gibbs Family Tree Last Modified 28 Nov 2018
Father Dr William Adams, LLD, b. 13 Jan 1772, London d. 11 Jun 1851, Thorpe, Surrey
(Age 79 years)
Mother Mary Anne Cokayne, b. 11 Dec 1781, Rushton Hall, Rushton, Northamptonshire d. 16 Jun 1873, Thorpe, Surrey
(Age 91 years)
Marriage 6 Apr 1811 St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone Road, London Family ID F408 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Dorothea Gibbs, b. 4 May 1833, Bedford Sq, Bloomsbury, London d. 11 Mar 1906, Exeter House, Roehampton, London
(Age 72 years)
Marriage 2 Dec 1856 Wraxall, Somerset Children + 1. Blanche Dorothea Adams Cokayne, b. 27 Jun 1858, Kensington, London d. 17 Sep 1883, Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey
(Age 25 years)
2. Caroline Louisa Adams Cokayne, b. 20 Jul 1859, Paddington, London d. 4 Sep 1929, Putney Heath, Surrey
(Age 70 years)
3. Borlase Warren Cockayne Cokayne, b. 3 Aug 1860, London d. 14 Mar 1875, Brighton, Sussex
(Age 14 years)
4. Mary Beatrice Georgiana Adams, b. 11 Dec 1861, 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London d. 23 Oct 1862, 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London
(Age 0 years)
5. Sir Brien Ibrican Cokayne, Baron Cullen of Ashbourne, b. 12 Jul 1864, 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London d. 3 Nov 1932, Wandsworth, Surrey
(Age 68 years)
6. Morton Willoughby Cockayne Cokayne, b. 11 Oct 1866, 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London d. 8 Nov 1894, Exeter House, Roehampton, London
(Age 28 years)
+ 7. Francis Stewart Cokayne, b. 7 Aug 1871, Ashbourne House, Putney, London d. 31 Mar 1945, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
(Age 73 years)
8. Sylvia Beatrice Cokayne, b. 18 May 1863, 92 Inverness Terrace, Paddington, London d. 21 Aug 1949, Wandsworth, London
(Age 86 years)
Family ID F751 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Aug 2017
- From 1873 he was Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms, 4th son of William Adams and brother of Louisa Anne, Lady Aldenham. Baptised 20 June 1825 at St. George's Bloomsbury. Educated privately. Matric. Oxford (Exeter College) 6 June 1844; BA 1848, MA 1852.
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