COOKE, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner, Lady Day quarter 1568/9 (tutor, the Head Master) (Chapter Muniments 54018).
COOKE, ---; in school list 1740.
COOKE, ---; b.; at school c. 1660.
COOKE, ANTHONY, eldest son of Sir Anthony Cooke KB, Gidea Hall, Essex, tutor to King Edward VI, and Anne, dau. of Sir William Fitzwilliam, Kt, Milton, Northants. ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1 Feb 1547/8 (Acts of Chapter); d. before 1576.
COOKE, BENJAMIN, son of Benjamin Cooke MusDoc, Organist of the Abbey, and Mary, sister of Charles Jackson, Tooting, Surrey, Comptroller, Foreign Department, General Post Office; b. 13 Aug 1761; adm. 14 Sep 1769; left Whitsun 1771; a boy of much musical promise; some of his compositions are preserved in the Royal College of Music; d. 25 Jan 1772. Buried in West Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
COOKE, SIR BRYAN, BART., brother of Sir George Cooke, Bart. (qv); b. 11 Aug 1717; adm. Jun 1730; left 1730; succ. his brother as 6th baronet, 16 Aug 1756; m. 11 May 1741 Mary, dau. of Col. Samuel Foley, Wadworth, Yorks.; d. 4 Mar 1766.
Cooke, Ernest Stenson, son of Sir Ernest George Stenson Cooke, of Snaresbrook, Essex, by May, daughter of Charles Edward Brooke; b. July 28, 1900; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (H); left Dec. 1916; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1918; Motor Union Insurance Co. Ltd., Inspector 1921 : m. June 6, 1924, Dorothy Mabel, daughter of Eduardo Zerega, of South Kensington; d. Oct. 8, 1950.
COOKE, SIR GEORGE, BART., eldest son of Sir Bryan Cooke, Bart., MP, and Priscilla, dau. of Robert Squire MP; b. 14 Mar 1714; adm. Jan 1721/2; left 1723; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1733; succ. as 5th baronet 25 Oct 1734; High Sheriff, Yorkshire, 1739; m. 1736 Catherine, dau. of John Sunderland, Doncaster, Yorks.; d. 16 Aug 1756.
Cooke, Gervase Spencer, son of Herbert Methold Cooke of Purley, Surrey, and Sibyl Courtenay, d. of Henry William Courtenay Reynell of East Sheen; b. 6 Feb. 1908; adm. Jan. 1922 (A); left Dec. 1925; Bank of England 1926-8; Agric. Mortgage Corpn 1929; RAF and RAF Regt 1942-6; m. 29 Aug. 1943 Doris Marian Rigby, d. of Montague Charles Gray of Bedford; d. Feb. 1987.
Cooke, Guy Proudfoot, only son of David Frederick Cooke, of Teddington, Middlesex, solicitor, by Alice, widow of Arthur Proudfoot; b. Feb. 27, 1894; adm. from Uppingham School April 29, 1909 (A); left Dec. 1910; entered his father's office in Jan. 1911 and was articled to him in March 1913; joined the R. N. V. R. March 1913, and as a leading seaman took part in the operations at Antwerp in Oct. 1914; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Nelson Batt.) Dec. 23, 1914; went out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force March 2, 1915; killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli Peninsula, May 2nd, 1915; unm.