Cockerell was trained between1809-1810 by his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753-1827), to follow in his footsteps as an architect.
Cockerell continued on to Sicily where his facility for imagining buildings from their ruins was most aptly demonstrated.
Cockerell was part of a committee including Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (q.v.) and Thomas Leverton Donaldson (q.v.), which met between 1836-37 to determine whether the Elgin Marbles and other Greek statuary in the British Museum had originally been colored.
This cross-section by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) is of Lough Crew, Co. Meath, near Oldcastle, Ireland, built for James Lennox William Naper (1791-1868) in 1821-29.
It bulks large in Cockerell's diaries as his largest commission of the decade, along with the Hanover Chapel in Regent Street of 1823-25.
Cockerell visited it frequently while work was in progress, recording in his diary his discussions with Naper, an intelligent man with strong views.
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The architectCharles Robert Cockerell had studied ancient architecture in Greece.
His knowledge of Greek art and architecture in general, and of the late 5th century BC Temple of Apollo at Bassae in particular, profoundly influenced his design for the University Galleries.
It was in 1795 that Colonel John Cockerell, a grandson of the diarist Samuel Pepys’s nephew, John Jackson, returned from Bengal and bought the estate from the third Earl of Guildford, possibly to be near his friend Warren Hastings at Daylesford.
CharlesCockerell (created a baronet in 1809 and Member of Parliament for Evesham) employed another brother, Samuel Pepys Cockerell, to build him a house in the Indian manner.
S.P. Cockerell was already an architect of some standing, Surveyor to the East India Company, he had been apprenticed to Sir Robert Taylor (where Nash was a pupil).
C. Cockerell trained in the London architectural practice of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell.
Later he worked on the rebuilding of Covent Garden Theatre as assistant to Robert Smirke, followed by an architectural tour of Europe (he discovered reliefs from the Temple of Phigalia, on show in the British Museum).
CharlesCockerell set up his own practice on his return to London in 1817.
Dr Oliver CharlesCockerell is a consultant neurologist and was trained in London in general medicine and carried out his specialist neurological training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.
He is currently lead consultant and Associate Clinical Director for Medical Neurosciences at the regional neuroscience centre for London and the East of England at Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust.
Dr Cockerell is a senior staff member of Barts and Royal London Medical College and is active in teaching and research.
Purchased by the 1st Earl of Shelburne (1705â“1761) in the mid 18th century, Bowood House and Gardens have been improved by successive generations up to the present day.
His father having died deeply in debt, the 2nd Marquess (1765â“1809) stayed away from Bowood after the contents were sold.
It was the 3rd Marquess (1780â“1863), Chancellor of the Exchequer at 25, who restored the house, commissioning C.R.Cockerell to design the chapel and alter the library, and Sir Charles Barry to build the clock tower.
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Since 1935 the building has been established as the Museum of the History of Science, with exhibitions including the scientific instruments given to Oxford University by Lewis Evans (1853-1930), amongst them the world's largest collection of astrolabes.
It was designed by CharlesCockerell in a Classical style and stands in Beaumont Street.
One wing of the building is occupied by the Taylor Institution, the modern languages faculty of the university.
