Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cocks, Norman F.
Parallel form(s) of name
- Cocks, Rev Norman F
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Description area
Dates of existence
1905-1996
History
Reverend Norman F. Cocks was born in Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom. He went to Hackney and New College, London, and was ordained at Skinner St. Congregational Church, Poole, Dorset on 25 November 1934. His Pastorates in England were Poole, 1934-1940, and High Cross Tottenham, 1940-45. Rev Cocks was then appointed to the post of Australian and New Zealand Secretary of the London Missionary Society, 1945-1970. He transferred to the Anglican Church in Tasmania, was ordained Deacon in St. David's Hobart on 19 October 1970, and was subsequently ordained as an Anglican priest. His portrait is in the "LMS Chronicles" of February 1945 and June 1947.