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CodePX7205
Dates1938-5 Feb 2023
Person NameCocks; Leonard Robert Morrison (1938-5 Feb 2023); Robin
SurnameCocks
ForenamesLeonard Robert Morrison
EpithetRobin
ActivityMuseum Staff: Appointed Scientific Officer Department of Palaeontology September 1965; Senior Scientific Officer May 1966; Principal Scientific Officer June 1972; Deputy Keeper October 1982, Keeper November 1986, Retired 16 June 1998
Worked in Brachipod Section

From his staff obituary.

A world-renowned expert on fossil brachiopods, Robin joined the NHM in 1965. He contributed his deep knowledge towards palaeoecology, Earth history, stratigraphy and palaeogeography. Awarded various medals for his contributions to palaeontology and geology, Robin was appointed OBE in 1999.

Although Robin retired in 1998, he continued at the NHM as an active Scientific Associate pursuing his passion for brachiopod taxonomy, and its application across various palaeontological disciplines, contributing to journal articles and book chapters throughout.

Full obituary available from Archivist.
RelationshipsMarried to Elaine Cocks
Catalogue
RefNoTitle
DF/PAL/124/5/2/1Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence A-B
DF/PAL/107/146People's Republic of China - visits
DF/PAL/124/5/2/2Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence C-D
DF/PAL/107/147Kenya & Uganda
DF/PAL/107/156Stan Wood's fossils
DF/PAL/124Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers
DF/PH/2/5/1/17Staff Group Photograph: Brachipod Section
DF/PAL/124/5/1/3Notebook relating to Newfoundland, Anticosti and Norway (Notebook 4)
DF/PAL/107/155East Wing
DF/PAL/107/144Swanscombe excavation
DF/PAL/107/134Casts
DF/PAL/107/133British Geological Survey
DF/PAL/124/5/1Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): notebooks
DF/PH/2/5/1/3Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff
DF/PH/2/5/1/5Staff Group Photograph: Palaeontology Department Staff
DF/PAL/124/4/4Fossil Brachiopoda: Sectional Correspondence, 1950-2005
DF/PAL/124/5Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence and Papers
DF/PAL/124/5/1/4Notebook relating to USSR (Notebook 6)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/7Notebook relating to North America (Notebook 9)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/6Notebook relating to Corvallis and Oregon trip (Notebook 8)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/8Notebook relating to Calcutta (Notebook 10)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/2Notebook relating to UK and Gotland (Notebook 3)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/1Notebook relating to Inferior Oolite: Onny River (Notebook 2)
DF/PAL/124/5/1/5Notebook relating to Podolia, Hong Kong, China, Sardinia, Estonia, Leningrad, Abu Dhabi, Czechoslovakia (Notebook 7)
DF/PAL/124/5/2/3Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence E-H
DF/PAL/124/5/2/4Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence I-L
DF/PAL/124/5/2/7Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence S
DF/PAL/124/5/2/5Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence M-O
DF/PAL/124/5/2/6Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence P-R
DF/PAL/124/5/2/8Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence T
DF/PAL/124/5/2/9Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence U-Z
DF/PAL/124/5/2Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence A-Z, 1964-2020
DF/PAL/124/5/3Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence files
DF/PAL/124/5/3/12Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence with R. B. (Barrie) Rickards
DF/PAL/124/5/3/35Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence, 1949-2019
DF/PAL/124/5/3/36Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence relating to his membership of The Geological Society
DF/PAL/124/5/4Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): DPhil thesis notes, text and data
DF/PAL/124/5/3/44Cocks, Leonard Robert Morrison (Robin): Correspondence relating to a paper on Llandovery
DF/PAL/124/3/6Brunton, Charles Howard Campbell: original plates and illustrations
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