{"id":5139,"date":"2016-10-30T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=5139"},"modified":"2016-10-30T17:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:56:04","slug":"parr-cunningham-hockin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-people\/parr-cunningham-hockin\/","title":{"rendered":"Parr Cunningham Hockin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parr was born in 1778 to the Rev. Thomas Pearce Hockin and Rebecca (<em>nee Cunningham Luxmore<\/em>) Hockin at Okehampton. He was baptised on March 27th of the same year. His father was the vicar of Okehampton and also served as a magistrate. Parr trained as a solicitor eventually taking up practice in Westgate Street, Launceston. He married Mary Roe on May 30th, 1815 at St. Mary\u2019s Church, Launceston. In 1816 Parr became the Mayor of Launceston a position that he later performed again in 1824 and 1831. It was during his second period of service that Parr was instrumental in improving Launceston water supply, and to this day his inscription can still be seen carved into the Southgate where there was once a pump. \u00a0He was declared bankrupt on April 29th, 1828 at this time his occupation was described as a money scrivener.<br \/>\nParr died on April 23rd, 1838 at Launceston.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-5140\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-1817-article.jpg\" alt=\"parr-c-hockin-1817-article\" width=\"232\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-1817-article.jpg 450w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-1817-article-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5141\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-article-from-February-1826.jpg\" alt=\"parr-c-hockin-article-from-february-1826\" width=\"600\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-article-from-February-1826.jpg 600w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Parr-C-Hockin-article-from-February-1826-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visits: 86<\/p><!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-5139\" data-postid=\"5139\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-5139 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parr was born in 1778 to the Rev. Thomas Pearce Hockin and Rebecca (nee Cunningham Luxmore) Hockin at Okehampton. He was baptised on March 27th of the same year. His father was the vicar of Okehampton and also served as a magistrate. Parr trained as a solicitor eventually taking up practice in Westgate Street, Launceston. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1095,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5139\/revisions\/5143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}