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Sir Charles Cooke (died 2 January 1721) of Hackney, Middlesex was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1721.

Cooke was the eldest son of Thomas Cooke of Hackney and the brother of James Cooke, MP for Tregony.

Cooke was returned as Member of Parliament for Grampound at the 1715 general election. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1716. He was knighted in January 1717 and appointed Sheriff of London the same year. Following his death he left a bequest to Morden College.

Cooke died unmarried on 2 January 1721.

References

  1. COOKE, Charles (-d.1721), of Hackney, Mdx. in The History of Parliament, published 1970, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/cooke-charles-1721
  2. From: 'Charlton', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 324–42. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45480. Date accessed: 3 October 2007.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded byAndrew Quick
Thomas Coke
Member of Parliament for
1715–1721
With: Hon. John West
Succeeded byHon. John West
Richard West


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