- George Wingrove Cooke
George Wingrove Cooke (1814 – 18 June 1865) was a British lawyer and historian.
Life
Cooke was born in Bristol and studied at
Jesus College, Oxford (where he obtained hisBachelor of Arts degree in 1834) and at theUniversity of London , where he studied law before beingcalled to the bar byMiddle Temple in 1835. His first book ("Memoirs ofLord Bolingbroke ", written whilst Cooke was an undergraduate), was published in 1835. Further books followed in the succeeding two years: "A History of Party from the Rise of the Whig and Tory Factions to the Passing of the Reform Bill" and a biography of the first Earl of Shaftesbury. Other publications reflected his employment on a commissions relating totithes andenclosures . "Inside Sebastopol" was a description of his visit to the Crimea during theCrimean War in 1855, and his work for "The Times " as a special correspondent in 1857 during theSecond Opium War led to another successful book. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on two occasions. After being appointed a commissioner in the copyhold commission in 1862, he fell ill in June 1865 and died of a heart attack on 18 June 1865. [cite web | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6166| title=Cooke, George (1814–1865), legal and historical writer| last=Courtney | first= W. P. |coauthors=Harris, Jonathan| work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher=Oxford University Press | year= 2004| accessdate=2008-09-17]References
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