The son of the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell whom he succeeded as surveyor of St Paul's Cathedral in 1819. He was architect to the Bank of England and professor of architecture at the Royal Academy.

CORRESPONDENCE OF Charles Robert Cockerell:

Charles Robert Cockerell to Lady Marion Bell, 24 October 1851 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)