The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

Funeral of Professor Cockerell.---This Day,

The interment of the mortal remains of Charles
Robert Cockerell, F.R.S., &c. Bc.c., took place this
morning in St. Paul's Cathedral. The funeral
cortege started at eleven o'clock precisely from
the late professor's residence, 13, Chester-terrace,
Regent's-park. It consisted of four mutes, the
esquire's plume, a kind of gothic hearse drawn
by six horses, four mourning coaches, each drawn
by four horses, family carrisges, and ether at-
tendants. The chief mourners were the four sons
of toe deceased, Mr. Penson, his son-in-law, Mr. R.
Rennie, Mr. J. Rennie, Mr. C. Rennie, Sir Hugh
Palliser, Bart., Major Goodenough. Mr. J. Good-
child, Mr. Pepys Cock€rell, the Rev. Henry
Cockerell, vicar of North Weald Bassett, and Cap-
tain Cockerell.

A few minutes before the hour appointed for the
arrival of the funeral procession, the pall-bearers,
each having a wreath of itnmortelles in hand, took
up teir station in the following order outside the
great door facing Ludgate-hill, which had been
heavily draped with black cloth curtains, held par-
tially open by white silk cords and tassels.
The Left Side—Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects—President Donaldson, Professor of Architec-
ture, University College ; Vice-President 0 wen
Jones; Fellow F. C. Penrose, Architect to St. Paul's
Cathedral; and C. C. Nelson, Hon. Sec. Foreign
Cot respondence.
The Right Side—The Royal Academy—Calder
Marshall (sculptor); C. Landseer, Keeper (in the
absence of Boxall, &q.); J. P. Knight, Esq.,
Seoretary ; and Sidney Smirk° (architect), Trea-
surer.

Precisely at 12 o'clock the body of the deceased
arrived at the cathedral, where it was met by the
Very Rev. Dr. H. Milman, the dean ; Most Ven.
W. H. Hale, MA., archdeacon of London ; the
Rev. Canon Melville, the Rev. Canon Dale, t he Rev.
Canon Champneys, the Rev. W. C. F. Webber,
M.A., sub•dean ; the Minor Canons Mr. Buckland,
Mr. Francis, the vicars choral of the cathedral, who
conducted it with mournful ceremony to tte choir,
amidst the solemn chanting of " I am the resur-
rection and the life."

The members of the Royal Academy took their
place in the procession immediately after the rela-
tives of the deceased, and then followed the Council,
Fellows, and Hon. Secretary of the Royal Institu-
tion of British Architects, and a large number of
the members of the most learned and scientific in-
stitutions of the three kingdoms.
At that part of the ceremony which directed that
the body should be taken to the grave, the pro-
cession moved to the spot at which the remains of
Sir Christopher Wren and Sir John Rennie lie
buried, and by the side of his relative and friend
;,he corpse of Professor Cockerell was consigned
to its last resting•place. There was a full choral
service in choir. Mr. John Goss presided at the
organ. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Kirkman B.
Hodgson, M.P., the Governor of the Bank of
England, the president of the Royal Society,
and other distinguished persons were pre sent. Mr.
Howard, of Olc Quebec-street, was the undertaker,
and Mr. Garston, of Welbeck•street, supplied the
appointments.

In the album d'honneur, presented lst January, 1863,
by the members of the Institute to the deceased, the rank
he had obtained was stated in the following formed terms :
—" To Charles Robert Cockerel!, Esq., L.A., D.C.L.,
F.R.1.E.A., late Professor of Architecture in the Royal
Academy of Arts, Royal Gold Medalist and late President
of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Associated
Member of the Institute of France, Chevalier of the Legion
of Honour, Member of Merit of the Pontifical Academy of
St. Luke's at Rome; honorary member of the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts of Bavaria, of the Royal Academy
of Denmark, of the Academy of Arts of Genoa, of the
Archaeological Society of Athens, and of the American In-
stitute of Architects, associate of the Royal Academy of
Belgium, member of the Society of Dilettanti."
This album comprised the autograph signatures of nearly
all the members of all great societies, and accompanying the
address which had been illuminated appropriately by Mr.
Owen Jones, and contained the expression of the unani-
mous voice of the Institute, in acknowledgment of his
eminent merits as an architect and as a promoter of art,
whose reputation had been long established and widely-
spread, and whose dignity and courtesy, united with those
resources of knowledge and graces of character, had done
so much honour to the highest office in the gift of the mem-
bers as to cause them, besides having recommended him
(1848) as the first recipient of her Majesty's Gold Medal in
Architecture, to communion Mr. Boxall, A„ to paint
Mr. Cockerell's portrait for preservation in the Rooms of
the Institute.

Mr. Charles Robert Cockerell, born 1788, was a pupil of
his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell, who was at that time
architect to the East India Company. He was also with
Mr. Smirke at the building of Covent Garden Theatre;
passed several years of study in Asia Minor, Sicily, Greece,
and Southern Europe, where he was one of the party that
excavated, in 1811 12, the ruins of the Temple to Jupiter at
.rEgina,;and to Apollo at Phigaleia, and brought to light
the now well-known specimens of early Greek sculpture
secured by a foreign potentate, but to be seen in casts in
the British Museum.

In 1829, he was elected an associate of the Royal Aca-
demy, obtained full rank of academician in 1836, and was
appointed Professor of Architecture in 1840, since which
time that chair assumed the importance which properly
belonged to it. The illustrations prepared for his lectures
wuuld alone form a large and valuable exhibition. His de •
tided predilection for what is termed the classic style, was
electrically tempered by an honest and warm appreciation
of the beauties due to Gothic art.

The principal structut es, which we call to mind, due to
his professional skill consists of the new University Library
in 1839, and the completion of the Fitz william Museum, after
the death of Mr. G. Basevi, both at Cambridge, the Taylor's
Institute at Oxford, the Philosophical Institute, 1820.3,
the branch office of the Bank of England about 1847, and
the Trinity Church, Hotwells, 1829-32, at Bristol, St.
David's College, at Lampeter, abou 1836 ; the branch office
of the Bank of England, at Liverpool, where he continued
the building of St. George's Hall, after the death of its archi-
tect, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, in 1847, to its completion, in
1854 P; the concert room at the north end of the structure,
entirely filled up from Mr. Cockerell's designs, received
great approbation at the hands of the public as well as
from the occupias of the orchestra.

The sculpture for the pediment of St. George's Hall was
designed and executed during Mr. Elmes' lifetime.
Mr. Cockerell's last work was at Liverpool, being a noble
range of offices for the Liverpool and London Insurance.
In London he executed Hanover Charel, Regent-street,
1823.5; the British Fire-office, Strand, 1842; the Sun
Fire-office, Tiareadneedle. street, 1842 ; the London and
Westminster Bank, Lothbury, 1837 8, in which he was asso-
ciated with Mr. Tite; various alterations in the Bank of Eng-
land (including the new Drawing-office, in 1849), to which
establishment he held the appointment of architect since
the resignation of Sir John Soane in 1833. Mr. Cockerell
was appointed architect to the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's Cathedral, by whose direction he took down the old
ball and cross, and put up new ones in the year 1821, and
under his direction the whole interior was cleaned and the
painting in the dome renewed in 1842. A few years ago
Mr. Cockerell resigned these and other appointments, retir-
ing from the arduous duties of an active life ; but, neverthe-
less, accepted the honourable office of President of the
Royal Institute of British Architects on the death of the
Earl de Grey, at the end of the year 1859. After a few
months of declining health he quietly breathed his last in
the arms, of his family, on the 17th inst., aged. 76 years.
Amongst the literary productions which have appeared
from his pen and pencil are the descriptions and illustrations
of the" Temple of Jupiter, Olympius, and the Temple of
Hercules, at Agricutum" (folio 1825). " The Ichnography
of the west front of Wells Cathedral, with an appendix on
the sculpture of other mediaeval churches in England"
(about 1850). " The Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius at
.gina and of Apollo Epicurius at Basest, near Phigleia"
(large folio, 1860), &c., &c.

FATAL FREAK OF A RAILWAY PASSENGER.—On
Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at Timperley
on the body of a young man, 20 years of age, named James
Smith, and who had lived at 73, Phillips-street, Hulme. It
appeared that on Sunday afternoon a party of five young
men, one of whom was the deceased, left Manchester at 3.29
per train for Bowdon, where the annual wakes were being
held, and large numbers of passengers were consequently
conveyed by rail. During the ride the five friends had some
larking amongst them, in the course of which two of them
exchanged hats. One of these was looking out of the window
wnen the train was approaching Timporley station, and the
bat which he had put on was blown off. It was agreed
by the others that they should get out at the station ana
go back for the hat. The deceased, however, against the
remonstrances of his companions, said that he would jump
out of the carriage and get the hat. Opening the door he
stepped on the footboard, and telling his companions to be
sure to wait for him at Timperley station, he closed the door
and leaped off the train. Whether he struck a signal post
near by, or lost his balance by getting in the hollow betwixt
the sleepers is not known, but he had fallen back under the
train, and was killed instantaneously, part of the skull and
brain being carried a yard from the body. A verdict of
accidental death was returned, no one being to blame but
the unfortunate victim ; but the coroner (Mr. Dunstan)
severely censured the practice of leaping out of trains whilst
in motion,