Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cockerell, Horace Abel

by Charles Edward Buckland

Layout 2

COCKERELL, HORACE ABEL (1833–⁠)

I.C.S. : born Sep. 19, 1833 : educated at Eton and Haileybury, 1851–2 : went out to Lower Bengal, 1853 : officiating Chairman of the Calcutta Corporation and Commissioner of Police, 1869 and 1872 : Commissioner of several Divisions : Secretary to the Bengal Government, Judicial and Political Departments, 1877–82 : Member of the Board of Revenue, 1882–87 : acting Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Aug. II to Sep. 17, 1885 : C.S.I. : retired 1887.