Author: Cocksedge, Roger
Biography:
COCKSEDGE, Roger (1752-94: ancestry.co.uk)
His parents were the Rev. Roger Cocksedge (1716-1806) and his wife Lina Whitely (1730-90) who had married in Sudbury, Suffolk, on 4 Jan. 1749. He was the second of their sons to be baptised with the same name; the first had been born in 1751 and must have died in infancy. Cocksedge was baptised on 31 May 1752 in Wardwell, Suffolk, where his father was the rector. He was admitted to Jesus College, Cambridge, on 6 Dec. 1768 (matric 1770, BA 1773, MA 1776), and ordained a deacon in 1773 and a priest in 1775. Like his father, he served as rector of Wardwell (1777-94). On 10 Mar. 1791 in St. Mary’s church, Bury St. Edmund, Suffolk, he married Jane Esther Toosey (or Le Tousey) of a Huguenot family; her father, John, was the rector of Hessett, Suffolk. It is not known if they had children. Although no public record has been located his death on either 31 July or 1 Aug. 1794 in Bramhall, Cheshire, is well documented. The Chase, intended as a closet drama, would have been written when Cocksedge was at Cambridge where the book was published anonymously. The dedication to William Martin, LLB, is dated 17 Dec. 1771. Martin, who was from Nottinghamshire, entered Jesus College in 1765 and gained his LLB in 1771. (ancestry.co.uk 19 Jan. 2024; ACAD; CCEd 19 Jan. 2024)