Researching Henry Cooke
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The name Henry means "ruler of the home" and is of German origin.
Records of Henry Cooke on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Henry Cooke and the Cooke Genealogy
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Henry Cooke (artist)
Henry Cooke (1642–1700), son of Henry Cooke, was an English artist, employed by the Ironmongers' Company.
Cooke went to Italy where he studied under Salvator Rosa. He painted the choir of New College Chapel, Oxford, the staircase at Ranelagh House, and Lord Carlisle's House in Soho Square. He died in 1700.
It is said that he committed a murder and fled from England; and that after his return, he was employed by King William to "repair" the Cartoons of Raphael. He finished the portrait of Charles II at Chelsea Hospital; and also triedportrait painting, but gave it up.
Source: Henry Cooke (artist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHenry Frederick Cooke
Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Cooke ('Kangkook') CB, KCH (bapt. 13 April 1783 – 10 March 1837), was a British soldier and Tory politician.
He was the son of George John Cooke of Harefield, MP for Middlesex, and Penelope Bowyer, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 3rd Baronet of Denham Court. His father, the son of George Cooke, descended from a line of prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas. He was the younger brother of Lieutenant-General Sir George Cooke, and of Edward Cooke R.N.; his sister Penelope Anne was married to Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan.
Cooke served as a Staff Officer during the Peninsular War between 1809 and 1812, being promoted from Captain to Lieut-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He acted as Assistant Adjutant General to Sir Charles Stewart. After being aide-de-camp to the Duke of York from 1814 until 1827, he became his private secretary.
Cooke represented Orford in Parliament between 1826 and 1832 and was described as the ugliest man in the British army. His residence was at 50 Charles Street, Berkeley Square and he was married to Katherine Windham, daughter of Admiral Windham of Felbrigg.
Source: Henry Frederick Cooke, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaHenry Cooke (Australian politician)
Henry Harry Cooke (1840 – 22 June 1903) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born at St Martin's in Cornwall to wheelwright Thomas Cooke and Jane. He moved to Victoria in 1857 and New South Wales in 1861, where he worked as a miner and storekeeper. On 19 August 1869 he married Mary Ann Isabel Peacock, with whom he had nine children. Having settled in the Forbes area, he founded the Forbes and Parkes Gazette and was its initial editor. He served as a Parkes alderman and the town's first mayor. In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Forbes, but he was defeated in 1882. He returned in 1887 as a Free Trader, serving until his defeat in 1891.
Cooke died at Parkes in 1903 (aged 63).
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