Researching Maurice Cockrill
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 245 people with the Cockrill surname? In that year Cockrill was ranked number 3334 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Maurice means "Moor, Dark Skinned" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Maurice Cockrill on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Maurice Cockrill and the Cockrill Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 333 people with the Cockrill surname in the UK? Cockrill is now ranked number 3728 for popularity in the UK. |
Cockrill Family History Databases
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Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Maurice Cockrill. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Maurice Cockrill
Professor Maurice Cockrill, (8 October 1936 – 1 December 2013) was a British painter and poet.
Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, he studied at Wrexham School of Art, North East Wales, then Denbigh Technical College and later the University of Reading from 1960–64. In Liverpool, where he lived for nearly twenty years from 1964, he taught at Liverpool College of Art and Liverpool Polytechnic and Nottingham University. At the latter he was closely associated with David Taborn who had a pivotal role in developing Cockrill's works. He was a central figure in Liverpool's artistic life, regularly exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery, before his departure for London in 1982. Cockrill's Liverpool work was in line with that of John Baum, Sam Walsh and Adrian Henri, employing Pop and Photo-Realist styles, but later he moved towards Romantic Expressionism, as it was shown in his retrospective at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 1995. His poetry was published in magazines such as "Ambit" and "Poetry Review".
He was formerly the Keeper of the Royal Academy, and as such managed the RA Schools of the Establishment as well as being a member of the Board and Executive Committee.
Cockrill received the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, in addition to awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Flags and other Projects, Royal Festival Hall, the Arts Council of Great Britain (Major Award), and the Arts Council Works of Art in Public Spaces. He was also given a British Council Award in 1985.
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