Mark Cocker is a British author and naturalist. He lives with his wife, Mary Muir, and two daughters in Claxton, Norfolk.
The countryside around Claxton is a theme for two of his twelve books.
Cocker in 2008
A picture of the last four "full-blooded" Tasmanian Aborigines c.1860s. Truganini, the last to survive, is seated at far right
Founded in 1675, Buxton College was a boys' Public School and, from 1923, a grammar school in Buxton, Derbyshire whose site has been expanded since 1990 to be used as the fully co-educational comprehensive Buxton Community School.
The college's new building in about 1890