- GB-2014-WSA-05213
- Person
- 1761-1772
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.