Frederick Pepys Cockerell (1833-1878)

Frederick Pepys Cockerell was a British architect and the second son of Charles Robert Cockerell, also an architect, whose favour for French architecture and sculpture in architecture was a major influence on Frederick. He studied at Winchester College and at King’s College London, and spent time sketching and training in France in 1850 and 1851-53 before returning to join his father’s architecture practice in 1856. He entered the 1863 competition to design the Albert memorial, and that in 1866 to design the National Gallery, though he won neither of them. The Royal Institute of British Architects elected him an associate member in 1860, a fellow in 1864, and honorary secretary in 1871. He was a trustee of Sir John Soane’s Museum as well as a member of the Athenaeum Club.

In 1867 Cockerell married Mary Mulock, daughter of Thomas Homan Mulock of Bellair, King’s county – the couple had six children. His sudden death in Paris in 1878 was followed by a funeral procession followed by the French architects Duc, Lefuel, Hardy, Pelechet, Daumet, and Vaudremer and burial at the Auteuil cemetery, Paris.

1860 – Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, London

Architect: F.P. Cockerell

The first English Grand Lodge was founded in 1717,

1868 – Lythe Hill, Haslemere, Surrey

Architect: Frederick Pepys Cockerell

During 1957 this house was taken over by the Admiralty for use by the staff of Commodore Naval Drafting and was named HMS Centurion.

1870 – Carlisle Memorial Column, Castle Howard, Yorkshire

Architect: F.P. Cockerell

From The Builder, April 30, 1870: The column of which an illustration is has been erected by public subscription aa memorial of the late Earl of Carlisle who through a long life one of the most and useful men in his county is best known the general public as Viceroy of Ireland high post he occupied for eight years.