J. de Kock

(17*-18*) A performer in Amateur theatre in Cape town in the 1830s.

Born in Cape Town, possibly a local businessman. He is one of a number of persons named De Kock active in theatre between 1825 and 183*. However, it is unclear whether the individuals referred to variously as J.J. de Kock, J. de Kock or J. de Kock C. zoon by F.C.L. Bosman (1928) are all the same person, or possibly only related. .

A J. de Kock was definitely a member of the amateur society Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense. For them he played one of the "snydersjongens" and a "Dansende Turk" in De Burger Edelman (1825), C.E. Boniface's translation of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Molière).

Performed for the Dutch amateur company Vlyt en Kunst, appearing in Clasius (by C.E. Boniface) on 19 July 1834.

See also Johannes Jakobus de Kock