He matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford in 1742 and entered Lincoln's Inn in 1745, where he was called to the bar in 1750.

[1] He succeeded his father in 1771 and the following year was created a baronet of Dumbleton in the County of Gloucester, and on 17 May 1784 the barony inherited from his great-uncle was revived when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Somers, of Evesham in the County of Worcester.

[1] He is buried in Eastnor, Herefordshire with a monument sculpted by William Humphries Stephens.

Cocks was succeeded in his titles by his son from his first marriage, John, who was created Earl Somers in 1821.

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