Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Cokayne, William

by Joseph Foster

Cokayne, William, s. George, of Doveridge, co. Derby, cler. St. John's Coll., matric. 9 July, 1736, aged 18; B.A. 1740, M.A. 1744, B.D. 1751, D.D. 1754, proctor 1750, professor of astronomy, Gresham College, 1752-95, rector of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, 1763, until his death in 1798.