Men-at-the-Bar/Cooke, William Major

by Joseph Foster

Cooke, William Major, police magistrate Marylebone, J.P. Middlesex, sometime recorder of Poole and Southampton, J.P. Newport, Isle of Wight, educated at London Univ. and Trin. Coll., Camb., a student of the Middle Temple 3 Nov., 1843, called to the bar 24 Nov., 1848 (eldest son of John Cooke, Esq., of Newport, Isle of Wight); born ⁠, 1825; married 4 Sept., 1849, Maria Bartlett, dau. of late Samuel Ashwell, Esq., M.D., of London.

Belcroft, Staplers, Isle of Wight; 31, Wimpole Street, W.; Reform Club.