Family History, Pocock Chart 0500 William Frederick Henry Pocock and Elizabeth Lydia Dacombe

P. was the spokesman for the thirty pharmacists in the city. He was the moving force behind the establishment of the Cape Town Pharmaceutical Society in1887, helping to draft its constitution. This society was the second such voluntary professional pharmaceutical organisation in South Africa. He was elected the first secretary-treasurer, a position he occupied for several years until he was elected president. In addition he played a critical role in the establishment of a statutory body to examine, register, and discipline pharmacists, a function performed by the doctors of the Colonial Medical Committee. He twice gave evidence before parliamentary select committees dealing with the matter and used the local pressto lobby public support. A Pharmacy Board was established in 1892, modelled on the Australian system, and P., who was a government nominee to the first board, was elected president. He remained a member until his retirement in 1902. The system of pharmacy boards was also adopted by other provinces, and in 1928one National Board was created, performing much the same work as P. hadenvisaged in 1891.As mayor of Rondebosch from 1888, he was closely associated with the building of the town hall and library. He was the originator of the scheme which separated the village of Mowbray from Rondebosch in 1890. Later (1897-98 and 1910.13)he also served as mayor of both Kalk Bay and Muizenberg. He became justice of the peace in 1892. Active in masonry, P. was master of the Lodge de Goede Hoop. He was a multitalented musician and keenly interested in chess and photography. In 1898 he set up home in England so that his children could attend school there. However, he returned to the Cape in 1909. A shrewd, industrious, and capable man, his motto was reputed to have been: 'progress in harmony with the times'. In 1885 he married Elizabeth Lydia Dacomb of Durban and had three sons and four daughters. There is a photograph of P. in the Pocock Papers at the South African Library in Cape Town. M. RYAN On Gravestone he is down as son of Lewis Greville POCOCK and Ann Elizabeth AGARD. On the charts I was sent I have a Greville POCOCK who does not appear above but on the 1901 Census there is a Lewis G POCOCK so I believe he was actually Lewis Greville POCOCK and I have shown him as such on the Chart above 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. Elizabeth Lydia is down as wife but not husband with her. She is aged 38 born Natla. with her is a Panthenia M POCOCK and Aunt aged 65 Living on own means born Deptford, Kent. Then there are the following children all born Cape Colony who I believe are children of Elizabeth Lydia and her husband William POCOCK, . Elizabeth D aged 15, May A aged 14, William A aged 12, Lewis G aged 10, John aged 9, Grace N aged 7 and Florence E aged 3. There were three servants with the family. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. POCOCK, Mary Agard Cape Town, 31 December 1886 –Grahamstown, 20 July 1977), algologist and botanist, was the eldest child of William Frederick Henry Pocock and his wife, Elizabeth Lydia Dacomb. Pocock’s interest in science was first stirred by her father’s work as a druggist and pharmacist, but her schooldays, from 1899, in the English countryside at Bedford High School for Girls and Cheltenham Ladies’ College developed her devotion to botany. From Cheltenham she obtained the University of London B.Sc. in botany, geology and mathematics in 1908 and a teaching diploma in 1911. After teaching from 1909 to 1913 at Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham, she returned to South Africa (On the 1901 Census she had a older sibling. Pocock started her studies in botany at the University of London and obtained a BSc in 1908. In 1913 she returned to South Africa, and four years later returned to England to study at Cambridge. However, at this point Cambridge did not award degrees to women, so she obtained her Honours degree in 1921 from the University of London. She then returned to South Africa where she lectured at various universities and carried out research. She also attended numerous international congresses. She spent some time in the USA doing research on algae. During World War II she was a member of the South African Women’s Auxiliary Service. Pocock was part of the South African Association of University Women, and was the first president of the Grahamstown branch. Overland to Lobito Bay: The 1925 Scientific Expedition of Dorothea Bleek and Mary Pocock In 1925, Dorothea Bleek and Mary Agard Pocock mounted a seven-month expedition, which took them from Cape Town, north by rail to the Victoria Falls, then by foot and palanquin—a mode of transport popular among colonial officials—through Zambia, western Zimbabwe, and central Angola to the coastal town of Lobito Bay. The aim of the expedition was divided between the twin-interests of Bleek and Pocock—extending existing research on /xam and !kung peoples and collecting plant specimens. Drawing on unpublished diaries, photographs, watercolors, and plant collections, my project deals with Bleek’s and Pocock’s contributions to San ethnography and botany in Southern Africa. The project examines the history of European travel and anthropology in Southern Africa and investigates the colonial context for Bleek and Pocock’s scientific work. The project seeks to further understanding about the status of San peoples within anthropological discourse; it contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on the Bleek family, and constitutes the first book-length treatment of Pocock’s work. The project hopes to make Bleek’s work productive for the study of San culture, and Pocock’s collection productive for concerns about biodiversity, ecological degradation, and the impact of climate change. Finally, it raises questions about the significance of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century scientific knowledge making. There is a large amount of information for Mary Agard POCOCK including a picture of her if you search on Google for her name. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. There appears to have been a daughter a Elizabeth Clive Agard POCOCK born 12 October 1917. She is down as being born in December quarter 1917 in Lewes district. Ancestry has this down as Hampshire but I would think it should be Sussex From S.A. Medical Journal - 10th April 1954 paged 326 IN MEMORIAM William Agard Pocock, F.R.C.S. Mr. W. H. D TRUBSHAW, F.R.C.S. writes: It is with deep regret that we record the death of William Agard Pocock in his 66th year. William Pocock was born in Cape Town and educated at Cheltenham and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He qualified at St. Bartholomew's and became a Fellow in 1917. In 1914 he joined the Navy and served in H.M.S. Thunderer. He was then seconded to the R.N.A.F. at Cranwell and went on to the R.A.F. Hospital at Finchley. In 920her returned to South Africa and in 1928 became an honorary surgeon to the Johannesburg General Hospital, of which from 1943 onward he was one of the senior surgeons. At the time of his death he was a ember of the Rand Club and Chairman of the Johannesburg Country Club. Mr Pocock was a general surgeon in the widest sense of the term. He believed that all specialties had their roots in general surgery and was a firm advocate of a good basic training before branching out into specialties. As a teach he stressed the common and basic facts of surgery and will be remembered by his many students, now scattered throughout the country, with gratitude. He retained his interest in orthopedic surgery, particularly in traumatic work, and was one of the first men in the country to master the closed technique of introducing Smith-Peterson pins. During the last war Mr. Pocock introduced early post-operative rising in his ward to combat shortage of man-power and as this was only adopted generally by surgeons after the war, it seems that he was a pioneer in this form of treatment. Mr. Pocock is survived by Mrs Pocock and their daughter, to whom our profession extends profound sympathy in their deep loss. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. On the charts I was sent I have a Greville POCOCK who does not appear above but on the 1901 Census there is a Lewis G POCOCK so I believe he was actually Lewis Greville POCOCK and I have shown him as such on the Chart above "A message on Ancestry says the following it is from a Stephen POCOCK: I am searching for the genealogy of my great-grandfather, Armand J(ean?) T(homas?) LE GROS, born in the 1850s. He was a Methodist minister, and married Harriet Bigwood, of an Anglo-Belgian family, in Brussels in 1886, where his second daughter, my grandmother Antoinette Le Gros, was born in 1889. He was subsequently a minister in (my father believes) both Jersey and Guernsey, later moving to England where he died in 1944. Because he was bilingual, we have believed him to be a Channel Islander who was minister to a mixed congregation in Brussels. We should be grateful for any information about his birth and parentage, a history of the Le Gros family to which he belonged. If there are documents recording any of this, we should like to know where they are. My grandmother, Antoinette Le Gros married Lewis Greville Pocock, and eventually emigrated to New Zealand, where I was born. My father, John Greville Agard Pocock, lives in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. I live in Los Angeles, California. We sincerely appreciate any help you can give us" 1917 20 Ruskin Walk, Herne Hill, London (at marriage) Father William Frederick Henry POCOCK - Gentleman 1924 23 Gower Street, Holborn, Camden London (London Electoral Roll) With wife Antoinette 1925 23 Gower Street, Holborn, Camden London (London Electoral Roll) With wife Antoinette 1935 48 Browns Road, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. 1938 48 Browns Road, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. 1946 48 Browns Road, St Albans, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. At the same address so assume a son was John Greville Agard POCOCK a Lecturer. (This ties up with the message on Ancestry above) 1949 48 Browns Road, St Albans, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette.At the same address so assume a son was John Greville Agard POCOCK a Lecturer and also an Olive Penelope Agard POCOCK a Spinster who I assume is a daughter. (The charts sent to me said there was a son and daughter for a Greville POCOCK born in New Zealand so this appears to be the children) 1954 Professor of Classics gave address in London he was going to at 7 Bancroft Avenue N.2. He had travelled to London from Durban, South Africa but gave his last country of residence as New Zealand, he was by himself. He was 62 years of Aged and arrived at Southampton on 25th July 1952 on the "Carnarvon Castle" of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company. 1954 48 Browns Road, St Albans, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. 1957 48 Browns Road, St Albans, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. 1969 48 Browns Road, Papnui, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. 1972 48 Browns Road, Papnui, Canterbury, Christchurch North, New Zealand (New Zealand Electoral Roll) With his was his wife Antoinette. This is the last return he appears on. Information for Antoinette Le-GROS 1917 The First Lodge, Warwick (at marriage) Father Armand John Thomas Le-GROS - Wesleyan Minister. Information for Lewis Grenville POCOCK - Grandfather of this Lewis Grenville POCOCK The Grandfather of Lewis Greville POCOCK was also a Lewis Greville POCOCK he went to South Africa and there is a lot of information about him, he was baptised in London on 7th May 1832 at St Marylebone, Westminster, his parent were a George and Hannah POCKOCK 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. John Pocock: Old Cheltonian Student of South African College & School of mines Born at Rondebosch and Died at Jagersfontein William Frederick Henry: Son of Lewis Greville Pocock and Ann Elizabeth Agard Born at George?? and died at Rondebosch 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. 1901 Headland, Kimbolton, Bedford and Kempston, Bedford, Bedfordshire. The information on this chart has been taken from the Charts I was sent and a Family Tree on Ancestry.com for which I thank them for the information. I, myself have not done any research into this particular chart. Have now found a Gravestone picture for John and his father William so a little bit of additional information added. Have found a lot more information for Lewis Greville POCKOCK which I have now added, and also for Mary Agard POCOCK. Again this chart has grown, I am told on the charts I was sent there was a daughter for William but I can find no information at all for him other than the find on the 1901 UK Census. I will leave this chart as I now have it for the present time, Hopefully someone in South Africa will find it and be able to add more information to it. (I have now added more as I have found by looking on Google a lot more information for William Agard POCOCK

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