Cooke, George

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19.11.1793 Cooke at Jennings and Cook 20.1.1794, 21.3.1794 and 19.12.1794 there. Also Cook 21.5.1794, 19.7.1794 at Holcroft's and 30.7.1794 adv Hart St; all linked to the Jennings/Reveley/Foulkes Bloomsbury set. In the Law Lists George Cooke was partner to John Foulkes at 14 Hart St, Bloomsbury from 1795 to 1797. Then there was Cook 25.12.1794 and 19.5.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 7.8.1795 and 22.8.1795 at Foulkes; Cook 7.9.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 2.10.1795 at Montagu's; and Cooke 21.12.1795, 29.1.1796 and 4.2.1796 at Foulkes, which demonstrates that Godwin's exact spellings cannot be relied on for identification, as all the above were surely one person (who seems to have transferred his connection from Jennings to Foulkes in December 1794). From Feb 1796 on it is less clear as Cook called on 19.10.1796; then Godwin met Cooke in Bath 9.6.1798, Cooke called 20.7.1798 and dined at Tooke's 29.7.1798. Then a gap till 28.6.1802 when Cooke called (but didn't see Godwin). The actor George Frederick Cooke DNB 1756?-1812 appeared in Godwin's 1796 list for 1803 and Godwin noted his death in 1812 so the GD website is surely right to assign 23.5.1803 and 8.4.1804 to him, both at his fellow actor Thomas Cooper's table. Cooke 14.12.1807 at Philips, call on Cooke 21.4.1809 and call on Cook 18.11.1809 were the last times (apart from Geo Cooke's death) that Godwin noted a Cook or Cooke till 1822.

George Cooke will PCC 1842 of Carr House, Yorkshire. Manchester Times 22.10.1842 'at Scarborough, George Cooke of Doncaster aged 72 years'. I think he was the former partner of John Foulkes