Rev Henry Cock SJ
Title:
Rev
First Name:
Henry
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Surname:
Cock
Order:
SJ
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Melbourne VIC
Country of Birth:
Australia
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Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Sydney NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
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Place of Burial:
Gore Hill NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
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Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | Kew | Xavier College | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Sydney | Surry Hills | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Adelaide | Norwood | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Melbourne | Richmond | Linane Vol 2 | |||||||
| Sydney | Lavender Bay | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 55:
Cock, Henry E., SJ, Australian
A Melbourne Born Jesuit
Exact suburb of birth and education have not been ascertained. And perhaps some Jesuit researcher or archivist, such as Father T. Dennett, may be able to enliven the bare details by presenting a character sketch of the man. Henry Cock was born in Melbourne on 18 January 1859. Ordination date is recorded as 31 July 1898; and the probable place was Dublin. The file before me indicates that he taught as a scholastic at Xavier College, Kew, and in Sydney, in the early 1890s. On his return to Australia he was engaged in both pastoral and teaching duties. Directories give the postings: St. Aloysius, Surry Hills; Norwood, South Aus. (1915); Richmond, Vic. (CD 1917); Lavender Bay, Syd. (CD 1920) (CD 1925) (CD 1930). He died at the last-named House on 12 September 1931. The age was 72 and burial took place in the Gore Hill Cemetery.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 6)
Ref.: Rev. H. Johnston S.J.
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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Cock, Henry
Teacher and pastor; born Brunswick, Melbourne, 18 January 1859; died Sydney, 12 September 1931, aged 72.
Henry Cock was educated at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, spent 13 years doing accountancy in a bank, and entered the Society at Xavier College, 12 November 1886. He completed his juniorate and also spent two years of teaching at Xavier College, 1889-90, followed by two more years teaching at St Ignatius' College, Riverview, 1890-92. He studied philosophy at Jersey, 1892-95, and theology at Valkenburg and Milltown Park, 1895-99, completing the long course. He later became professed. Tertianship followed at Tronchiennes, 1899-1900, and he was minister in the Irish theologate at Milltown Park, Dublin, 1900-1901.
He returned to Australia and taught at St Aloysius' College, 1901-02, 1905-08, and at Riverview, 1903-05. While in Sydney, he frequently lectured in the Sydney domain.
Cock spent 1908-16 working in the Norwood parish, and the last two years as superior and parish priest, but his health broke down and he went to Richmond, Victoria, 1916-19, and finally to Lavender Bay, 1919-31.
He was a very portly not to say obese man, and had a great devotion to the liturgy. He was a man of wide reading, especially in philosophy and theology. He was also a controversialist, able to defend truth vigorously. Finally, he was recognised for his constant devotion to ordinary duties.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)