He was born in Knightsbridge in Middlesex, the son of the architect William Fuller Pocock (1779–1849) and his wife Fanny née Willmer.
[1] In 1865 he stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in the 1865 General Election in Guildford in Surrey and unsuccessfully again as the Liberal candidate against Conservative Richard Garth in the 1866 by-election in again Guildford.
[3] On 6 November 1840 he married builder's daughter Sophia Archbutt (1815–1889) at St Luke's church in Chelsea in London.
In 1877 the architect Joseph Lancaster Ball was articled to Pocock.
[6] There is a stained glass window memorial dedicated to Pocock at Wesley's Chapel on the City Road in London.