Baron Somers

Their grandson Charles Cocks represented Reigate in Parliament from 1747 to 1784, and was created a baronet, of Dumbleton in the County of Gloucester, in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1772.

In 1784 the barony held by his great-uncle was revived when he was made Baron Somers, of Evesham in the County of Worcester, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

His eldest son, the second Baron, sat as a Member of Parliament for West Looe, Grampound and Reigate and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire.

On his death in 1995, the titles passed to his second cousin once removed, the ninth and (As of 2019[update]) present holder of the baronetcy and barony.

The heir presumptive to the barony is the present holder's fourth cousin three times removed, Jonathan Bromley Cocks (b.

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
Somers Cocks memorial window, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, displaing coats of arms of Edward Lygon Somers Cocks and Selina Frances Watson-Copley
A panel with the coat of arms of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers , displaying his arms impaling the paternal arms of his second wife, Anne Pole.