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Cockerell designed the architecture of much of the Bayswater area of London, including Sussex Gardens , and also Admiralty House . Among country houses, he designed Sezincote House , Gloucestershire (for his brother Sir Charles Cockerell , baronet), and Middleton Hall (now the home of the National Botanic Garden Of Wales ).

He had a distant kinship with the diarist Samuel Pepys . His son became the famous architect Charles Robert Cockerell (1788 - 1863).

Cockerell's pupils included the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764 - 1820), who emigrated to the United States of America in 1795 and worked on the White House and the United States Capitol .