Men-at-the-Bar/Cooke, William Henry (b.?)

by Joseph Foster

Cooke, William Henry, Q.C., F.S.A., M.A., Brasenose Coll., Oxon, 1847, county court judge (circuit No. 36) since 1874, of circuit No. 32 1868–74, recorder of Oxford since 1866, J.P. cos. Norfolk and Hereford, a student of the Inner Temple 2 May, 1834 (then aged 22), called to the bar 9 June, 1837, Q.C. 3 Nov., 1863, called to the bench 17 Nov., 1863 (eldest son of William Cooke, of Bromhead, co. Hereford, clerk); born ⁠, ⁠; married 1st, 1 Aug., 1857, Martha Anne, only child of William Jones, Esq., of Brocton Court, Shifnal; she died; he married 2ndly, 12 Sept., 1865, Anne, 2nd dau. of J. Greatorex, Esq., of London.

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