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cockerill

n. (surname: English)

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Cockerill

Cockerill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Sport and sportsmen
  • Glenn Cockerill, English football manager
  • John Cockerill (footballer), British football player
  • Kay Cockerill, American golfer
  • Mike Cockerill, Australian football journalist
  • Richard Cockerill, English rugby player
  • Ricky Cockerill, New Zealander figure skater
  • Ron Cockerill, English football player
  • Samuel Cockerill, English cricketer
Other people
  • John Cockerill (industrialist), British businessman and founder of John Cockerill & Cie. (later SA John Cockerill), son of William
  • Joseph R. Cockerill, U.S. Representative
  • George K. Cockerill (1867–1957), British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament for Reigate 1918–1931
  • George Cockerill (journalist) (1871–1943), Australian journalist and write
  • William Cockerill, British entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution

Usage examples of "cockerill".

So Horton and Cockerill had rented it a few days earlier and installed all the microcams before checking out for a short, fictitious scuba-diving trip down in the Keys.

Built in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1929 by John Cockerill & Sons, she went into service for -the Royal Belgian Lloyd Lines, transporting cargo and passengers from the Belgian Congo and other ports in Africa to her home harbor of Antwerp, Belgium.