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RICHARD FREDERICK EDWARD COCK (1900-1981)
Richard Frederick Edward Cock was born at 49 Haddington Road, Morice Town, Devonport, on June 26th 1900 [1][1a]. He the first son of Mr Frederick Ernest and Mrs Maude Emily Cock, formerly Smerdon, grocers, who had married at the Princes Street Congregational Chapel in Devonport on January 22nd 1899 [2]. After attending Devonport High School for Boys, he moved to London in 1919 and started to write freelance articles for magazines. [1] At the end of 1921 he married Miss Janie Salt, the daughter of Mr James Salt, a Trinity Pilot at Lanteglos by Fowey, in Cornwall. [3] In 1923 Mr Cock returned to Plymouth when he joined the staff of the weekly "Western Independent" newspaper. He became their News Editor in 1943 and remained until his retirement in 1968. For thirty years he wrote the "Gossip of Plymouth" feature for the paper and after his retirement he continued to write articles of local interest for the "Western Morning News". [1] During the post-Second World War years, when he lived at Rosemont House, Newton Ferrers, he was also secretary of the Plymouth Société Française. [1] Mrs Janie Cock died in March 1971 at the age of 75 years. [3]
Not long after he had moved
from Newton Ferrers to Connaught House, Mutley, Mr Richard Frederick Edward
'Teddy' Cock passed away at Freedom
Fields Hospital on Saturday December 5th 1981, having passed his 81st
birthday. [1] Sources:
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