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George Cockings||1802| George Cockings (died 1802), writer, had a small place under the British government at Boston, America. Returning to England he obtained the post of registrar of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce in the Adelphi. After holding this for thirty years, he died on 6 February 1802. His American experiences led him to write poems and dramas, which, in respect of construction and literary style, are of the feeblest order. Some of these obtained a measure of success, and went through three or four editions in America and England. His writings include 'The Conquest of Canada, or the Siege of Quebec', an historical tragedy in five acts, octavo, 1766, a contemptible production without either form or significance; 'Benevolence and Gratitude', a poem, London, 1772, octavo; 'War, an Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca by the French to the Reduction of the Havannah', 1760, octavo, and 2 vols. in one, including some minor poems, 2nd edition Boston, N.E., 1762, 4th edition 1765, and again in 1785; 'Poems on several Subjects', London, 1772, octavo; 'Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce', a poem, London, 1766, octavo, and 1769, octavo.

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