Personal Life
Cockcroft married Eunice Elizabeth Crabtree (born 26 October 1898, died 4 October 1989) in 1925 and had six children: John Haslam, known as Timothy, born 29th January 1927, died 11 October 1929; Joan Dorothea, known as Thea, born 5th October 1932; Jocelyn, born 1st September 1934; Elisabeth Fielden, born 23rd February 1936; Catherine Helena, born 17th October 1939; and Christopher Hugh John, born 14th January 1942. He died at Churchill College, Cambridge, 18 September 1967; he is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, in the same grave as his wife and son John, known as Timothy. John R. Cockcroft is his great nephew, notable in the field of cardiology and arterial stiffness.
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