Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers

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Charles Somers Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (14 July 1819 26 September 1883), styled the Hon.
Charles Cocks from 1819 to 1841 and Viscount Eastnor from 1841 to 1852, was a British Conservative Party
and then Liberal politician.

Somers was the son of John Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers, and his wife Lady Caroline Harriet, daughter of
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. As a Conservative, he was elected to the House of Commons as the
Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate at a by-election in February 1841 (succeeding his father), a seat he
held until 1847.[1] In 1852 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He
served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1853 to 1855 in Lord Aberdeen's
coalition government and from 1855 to 1857 in the Liberal administration of Lord Palmerston.

Lord Somers married Virginia, daughter of James Pattle, in 1850; she was the sister of Julia Margaret Cameron
(ne Pattle), a well-known Victorian era photographer. Lord Somers and Virginia had three daughters, of whom
one, Lady Virginia, died from diphtheria at an early age. The younger daughter, Lady Adeline Marie, married
George Russell, 10th Duke of Bedford,[2] while the elder daughter, Lady Isabella Caroline, married Lord Henry
Somerset.

Lord Somers died in September 1883, aged 64, when the earldom and viscountcy of Eastnor became extinct.
He was succeeded in his junior title of Baron Somers by his first cousin once removed, Philip Reginald Cocks.
The Countess Somers died in 1910.

Notes
1. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 18321885 (2nd ed.). Chichester:
Parliamentary Research Services. p. 252. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
2. Adeline, Duchess of Bedford - A character study (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/1st-may-1920/8/a
deline-duchess-of-bedford-a-character-study-t), 1 May 1920, The Spectator, Retrieved 22 April 2016

References
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New
York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.
History of the Somers-Cocks family

External links
Hansard 18032005: contributions in Parliament by Viscount Eastnor
 Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Reigate Succeeded by
Viscount Eastnor 18411847 Thomas Somers-Cocks
Political offices
Preceded by Lord-in-Waiting Succeeded by
The Earl Talbot 18531857 ?
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl Somers Succeeded by
John Somers-Cocks 18521883 Extinct
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Somers Succeeded by
John Somers-Cocks 18521883 Philip Reginald Cocks

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