Badcock is a surname of English origin, properly 'Bartcock', or son of Bartholemew. In his history of the Badcock family, published in "Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, London, 1927" Colonel J.C Tyler writes of his research into the Badcock name: "One cannot fail to be struck with the great number of priests, parsons and men of literary repute. There are also in evidence merchants both by sea and by land, also landowners, soldiers and sailors, besides those engaged in the principal industry of weaving in Devon and Somerset, which includes the woolcombers, sergemakers and men of similar crafts".
Notable persons with this surname have included:
General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, KCB, CSI (1844–1907), British general in the Indian Army
Henry Stanhope Badcock, founder of Badcock Home Furniture
Jack Clement Badcock (20th century), English naturalist, historian, columnist, writer and painter
Jack Badcock (1914–1982), Australian cricketer
John Badcock (writer) (fl. 1816–1830), English sporting writer
John Badcock (cricketer) (1883–1940), English cricketer
John Badcock (artist) (born 1952), New Zealand artist
John Badcock (rower) (1903–1976), British rower
Lovell Badcock (1744–1797), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
General Sir Lovell Benjamin Lovell (Badcock) (1786–1861), British lieutenant-general
Peter Badcock (1934–1967), Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
Richard Neale Badcock (1721–1783), English merchant and a director of the South Sea Company
Samuel Badcock (1747–1788), English theologian and literary critic
Ted Badcock (1897–1982), New Zealand Test cricketer
Thomas Stanhope Badcock (1749–1821), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
William Badcock (1622–1698), London goldsmith, hilt-maker and author
Vice Admiral William Stanhope Lovell (Badcock) (1788–1859), British vice-admiral and veteran of Trafalgar
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