Researching John Cozens
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Cozens on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Cozens and the Cozens Genealogy
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Some Famous People called John Cozens
John Robert Cozens
John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolour landscapes.
Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J.M.W. Turner. Indeed, his work is full of poetry. There is a solemn grandeur in his Alpine views and a sense of vastness, a tender tranquility and a kind of mystery in most of his paintings, leaving parts in his pictures for the imagination of the spectator to dwell on and search into. John Constable described Cozens as "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape."
In June 2010 Cozen's Lake Albano (c.1777) sold at auction, at Sotheby's in London, for £2.4 million, a record for any 18th-century British watercolour.
Source: John Robert Cozens, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Cozens (footballer)
John William Cozens (born 14 May 1946) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Notts County, Peterborough United and Cambridge United. He began his career in non-league football with Tonbridge, was a prolific goalscorer for three seasons for Hayes, and signed professional forms with Hillingdon Borough in 1968, before moving into league football. Cozens went on to coach at Cambridge United, becoming assistant manager and on occasions caretaker manager, and managed non-league club King's Lynn for six months in the 1988–99 season.
Source: John Cozens (footballer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Cozens
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