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Arthur Cook (other)
Arthur Cook may refer to: *Arthur Cook (Australian politician) (1883–1945), Australian politician *Arthur Cook (cricketer) (1889–1970), South African cricketer *Arthur Cook (footballer) (1890–?), footballer for Swansea Town and West Bromwich Albion *Arthur Cook (New Zealand politician) (1886–1943), New Zealand politician *Arthur Cook (sport shooter) (1928–2021), U.S. Olympic sport shooter *Arthur Bernard Cook (1868–1952), British classical scholar *A. J. Cook (trade unionist) (1883–1931), British coal miner and trade union leader *Arthur Leonard Cook (1913–1991), Australian boxer *Arthur Cook (Pennsylvania politician), Speaker of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly in 1689 See also *Arthur Coke Burnell (1840–1882), pronounced Arthur Cook Burnell, English scholar of Sanskrit *Arthur Hafford Cooke (1912–1987), English academic administrator at the University of Oxford {{hndis, Cook, Arthur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (Australian Politician)
Arthur Ernest Cook (6 September 1883 – 10 April 1945) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sandhurst to engine driver Robert Cook and Mary Daley. He attended state school before becoming a hairdresser, owning his own business in Bendigo from around 1901. On 28 April 1909 he married Mary Victoria Rocke, with whom he had four children. He served as vice-president of the Bendigo Trades Hall Council and was on the Labor Party's state executive from 1916 to 1918. In 1924 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Bendigo West, transferring to Bendigo in 1927. He served until his death at Parliament House in Melbourne in 1945. One of his grandsons, Esmond Curnow Esmond Julian Curnow (born 27 October 1946) is an Australian politician. He was born in Bendigo to factory manager Thomas William Curnow and Esma Jean Cook. He attended Bendigo High School and became the manager of a bedding store. He joined th ..., later served in the Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (cricketer)
Arthur Eyre Cook (28 July 1889 – 25 September 1970) was a South African first-class cricketer. Cook was born at King William's Town in July 1889. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Border against Transvaal at King William's Town in March 1907, with Cook featuring in the return fixture at East London. He next played for Border in the 1908–09 Currie Cup, making three appearances in the competition. He played against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club in January 1910, before playing two matches for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's touring XI against Rhodesia. He played one match for The Rest against Transvaal in December 1911, before making four appearances for Transvaal from March 1913 to April 1914. In thirteen first-class matches, Cook scored 506 runs at an average of 24.09 and a high score of 101. This score, which was his only first-class century, came for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI against Rhodesia. With his left-arm medium pace bowling, he took 10 wickets at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (footballer)
Arthur Fredrick Cook (1889 – 1930) was an English footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for Swansea Town and West Bromwich Albion.Joyce, Michael: "The Football League player's records 1888 to 1939 " (). Cook guested for Stoke Stoke is a common place name in the United Kingdom. Stoke may refer to: Places United Kingdom The largest city called Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. See below. Berkshire * Stoke Row, Berkshire Bristol * Stoke Bishop * Stok ... in 1918–19, making five appearances. Career statistics Source: References 1889 births 1930 deaths Footballers from Stafford Men's association football defenders English men's footballers Stafford Rangers F.C. players Wrexham A.F.C. players West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Luton Town F.C. players Swansea City A.F.C. players Whitchurch F.C. players English Football League players Stoke City F.C. wartime guest players {{England-footy-defender-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (New Zealand Politician)
Arthur Cook (30 November 1885 – 4 March 1943) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 10 September 1942 to 4 March 1943, when he died. He was appointed by the First Labour Government The first MacDonald ministry of the United Kingdom lasted from January to November 1924. The Labour Party, under Ramsay MacDonald, had failed to win the general election of December 1923, with 191 seats, although the combined Opposition tall .... He was born in Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia in 1885 and came to New Zealand around 1910. He was a shearer, and was president of the Shearers' Union and secretary from 1924 to 1942 of the New Zealand Workers' Union which grew out of the Shearers' Union. He was President of the Alliance of Labour 1926–36, and in the 1920s a bitter critic of the Labour Party. He was from Wellington. When he was appointed, he had retired recently from the position of general secretary of the New Zealand Workers' Union. He died when the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (sport Shooter)
Arthur Edwin "Art" Cook (March 19, 1928 – February 21, 2021) was an American sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Biography Cook was born in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was the captain of the rifle team and a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. Cook began shooting in 1939 while attending a Boy Scout Camp. In 1941 he came in last place in a Boy Scout team shooting match. He stayed with the sport and kept practicing. He won his first victory in 1946 at the National Junior Smallbore Rifle Championship. He then entered the University of Maryland and led them to the National Intercollegiate Team Championships in 1947 and 1949 where they set record scores both years. The team lost a close championship contest to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1948 and took second place. He was named to the All-American Rifle Team all three years. He left school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Bernard Cook
Arthur Bernard Cook (22 October 1868 in Hampstead – 26 April 1952 in Cambridge) was a British archeologist and classical scholar, best known for his three-part work, ''Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion''. Early life and education Arthur Bernard Cook was born in Hampstead, London on 22 October 1868. He was the son of William Henry Cook MD (1825-1882) and Harriet Bickersteth (1830-1918) His mother's family were leading ecclesiastical scholars of the time, including Edward Bickersteth (Dean of Lichfield) (1814-1892), Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) (1825-1906) and Edward Bickersteth (bishop of South Tokyo). (1850-1897) Cook was educated at St. Paul's School, where he won several academic prizes. He received an MA from the Trinity College, Cambridge. The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a distinguished annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate prize. Cook's poem ''Windsor Castle'' won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Cook
Arthur Leonard "Rusty" Cook (20 April 1913 – 10 October 1991) was an Australian boxer. Cook won Australia's first ever Empire/Commonwealth Games boxing gold medal in the 1934 British Empire Games The 1934 British Empire Games were the second edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, held in England, from 4–11 August 1934. The host city was London, with the main venue at Wembley Park, although the track cycling events wer ... in London, after defeating Welshman Frank Taylor in the final of the Lightweight division. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was eliminated in the second round of the Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Men's welterweight, welterweight class after losing his fight to the Finnish fighter Sten Suvio, the eventual Gold Medallist. In July 1938 Cook announced he was going professional. He had 3 professional fights in Queensland for 3 wins before taking on the seasoned N.S.W fighter Alan Westbury in Brisbane on 27 Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Cook (Pennsylvania Politician)
Arthur Cook (or Cooke) (1636 – 1699) was a colonial Rhode Island and Pennsylvania politician whose various offices included service as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, assuming office on July 14, 1685, and serving as chief justice from 1686 to 1690. Cooke was a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1681 and 1683, thereafter moving to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There, he was a justice of the peace and member of the provincial council from 1686 to 1688, and a member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1689, where he served as its speaker. He then returned to his positions as justice of the peace and member of the provincial council from 1690 to 1692. He was also a commissioner of the state of Pennsylvania in 1688, a justice of the peace of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Philadelphia County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the List of counties in Pennsylvania, most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Coke Burnell
Arthur Coke Burnell (11 July 184012 October 1882) was an English civil servant who served in the Madras Presidency who was also a scholar in Sanskrit and Dravidian languages. He catalogued the Sanskrit manuscripts in southern India, particularly those in the collections of the Tanjore court collections. He was, with Henry Yule, a co-compiler of '' Hobson-Jobson'', a compendium of Anglo-Indian terms. Life Burnell was born at St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, the first son of Arthur Burnell who worked in the East India Company and Mary Agnes, ''née'' Coke. A grand-uncle was William Coke. He was educated at Bedford School, and then went to King's College, London, where a meeting with Professor Viggo Fausböll of Copenhagen led him to an early interest in Indology. He took the examination for the Indian Civil Services in 1857 and after studies in Sanskrit from Theodor Goldstücker and Telugu went to take up a post in the Madras Presidency in 1860. In the course of positions a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
