Sir Isaac POCOCK [18406]

  General Notes:

Sir Isaac Pocock was knighted for his duties as High Sheriff of Northampton in 1786

He drowned while punting on the River Thames, near his home, after a heart attack and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Cookham where he is commemorated with a marble plaque:
Ref: www.holytrinitycookham.org/about.html#

The memorial depicts his death and has been kindly transcribed by Peter Meade and reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
SIR ISAAC POCOCK KNIGHT
LATE OF THIS PARISH
WHO WAS SUDDENLY CALLED FROM THIS WORLD TO A BETTER STATE
WHILST ON THE THAMES, NEAR HIS OWN HOUSE,
OCTOBER 8TH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1810
AND IN THE 59TH YEAR OF HIS AGE
BENEVOLENT AND AMIABLE TO ALL
HE WAS UNIVERSALLY BELOVED IN LIFE AND LAMENTED IN DEATH

THIS MONUMENT,
A FRAIL MEMORIAL OF HIS INTESTIMABLE WORTH,
WAS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW


Further information on Sir Isaac appears in "The Gentleman's Magazine", Vol.56, pt.1, p.177 and Vol.80, pt.2, p.396.

Isaac married Anne WIDON [18407] [MRIN: 6628] on 18 Feb 1784 in Christ Church SRY. (Anne WIDON [18407] was born about 1736, died on 6 Jul 1818 in Maidenhead BKS and was buried on 14 Jul 1818 in Cookham BRK.)