Henry Cockton

Henry Cockton

Henry Cockton (1807 - 1853), novelist, born in London, is remembered only as an author for his novel 'The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist' (1840) which was parodied by 'Timothy Portwine' (pseud. of Thomas Peckett Prest) as 'The Adventures of Valentine Vaux; or, the tricks of a Ventriloquist' (1840).

Other Cockton novels include 'Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist', 'The Love Match', 'George St George Julian, The Prince', 'Lady Felicia: A Novel', 'Percy Effingham: Or, The Germ of the World's Esteem', 'The Sisters; or, England and France', and 'Stanley Thorn'.

Cockton's death in Bury St Edmunds on 26th June 1853 was noted in The Times newspaper on Sat 2nd July 1853.

His remains were interred in the churchyard of the ruined abbey at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. No stone marks his grave, but in 1884 a few admirers raised a tablet which is still seen today on the wall of the abbey's charnel house.


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