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Henry Cooke (other)
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Henry Cooke may refer to: *Henry Cooke (composer) (c. 1616–1672), English composer *Henry Cooke (artist) (1642–1700), British painter *Henry Cooke (minister) (1788–1868), Irish presbyterian leader *Henry D. Cooke (1825–1881), first territorial governor of the District of Columbia *Henry D. Cooke (admiral) (1879–1958), rear admiral and grandson of Henry D. Cooke *Henry Cooke (Australian politician) (1840–1903), Australian politician *Henry Frederick Cooke (1784–1837), British soldier * Sir Henry Cooke, 2nd Baronet (1633–c. 1689), English landowner See also *Henry Cook (other) Henry or Harry Cook may refer to: * Henry Caldwell Cook (1886–1939), British educator * Henry Francis Cook (1855–?), American manufacturer and financier * Henry Lucas Cook (died 1928), Archdeacon of Craven, 1913–1928 * Harry Cook (actor) (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cooke (composer)
Henry Cooke (c. 1616 – 13 July 1672) commonly known as Captain Cooke, was an English composer, choirmaster and singer. He was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal and by the outbreak of the English Civil War was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He joined the Royalist cause, in the service of which he rose to the rank of captain. With the Restoration of Charles II he returned to the Chapel Royal as Master of the Children and was responsible for the rebuilding of the chapel and the introduction of instrumental music into the services. The choristers in his charge included his successor and eventual son-in-law Pelham Humfrey, as well as Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest En ... and John Blow. On reconstituting the choir of the Chapel Royal, Dussuaze st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cooke (artist)
Henry Cooke (1642–1700), son of Henry Cooke, was an English artist, employed by the Ironmongers' Company. Cooke went to Italy where he studied under Salvator Rosa. He painted the choir of New College Chapel, Oxford, the staircase at Ranelagh House, and Lord Carlisle's House in Soho Square. He died in 1700. It is said that he committed a murder and fled from England; and that after his return, he was employed by King William to "repair" the Cartoons of Raphael. He finished the portrait of Charles II at Chelsea Hospital The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for some 300 veterans of the British Army. Founded as an almshouse, the ancient sense of the word "hospital", it is a site located on Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, London, Che ...; and also tried portrait painting, but gave it up. References * 1642 births 1700 deaths 17th-century English painters English male painters {{England-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cooke (minister)
Henry Cooke (1788–1868) was an Irish Presbyterian minister of the early and mid-nineteenth century. Upbringing Henry Cooke came of a family of puritan settlers in County Down from Devonshire. He was the youngest son of John Cooke, tenant farmer of Grillagh, near Maghera, County Londonderry, by his second wife, Jane Howie or Howe, of Scottish descent, and was born on 11 May 1788. From his mother he derived his force of character, his remarkable memory, and his powers of sarcasm. A vivid impression, retained through life, of the events of 1798—the Irish Rebellion—influenced his political principles. After struggling for an education in rude country schools, he matriculated at Glasgow College in November 1802. Owing to illness he did not graduate, but he completed the arts and divinity courses, not shining as a student, but taking immense pains to qualify himself as a public speaker. Fresh from Glasgow, he appeared before the Ballymena presbytery in the somewhat uncleric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry D
Henry may refer to: People * Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: ** Henry I of Castile ** Henry II of Castile ** Henry III of Castile ** Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cooke (Australian Politician)
Henry Harry Cooke (1840 – 22 June 1903) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at St Martin's in Cornwall to wheelwright Thomas Cooke and Jane. He moved to Victoria in 1857 and New South Wales in 1861, where he worked as a miner and storekeeper. On 19 August 1869 he married Mary Ann Isabel Peacock, with whom he had nine children. Having settled in the Forbes area, he founded the ''Forbes and Parkes Gazette'' and was its initial editor. He served as a Parkes alderman and the town's first mayor. In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also r ..., but he was defeated in 1882. He returned in 1887 as a Free Trader, serving until his defeat in 1891. Cooke died at Parkes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Frederick Cooke
Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Cooke ('Kangkook') CB, KCH (bapt. 13 April 1783''London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812'' – 10 March 1837), was a British soldier and Tory politician. He was the son of George John Cooke of Harefield, MP for Middlesex, and Penelope Bowyer, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, 3rd Baronet of Denham Court. His father, the son of George Cooke, descended from a line of prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas. He was the younger brother of Lieutenant-General Sir George Cooke, and of Edward Cooke R.N.; his sister Penelope Anne was married to Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan. Cooke served as a Staff Officer during the Peninsular War between 1809 and 1812, being promoted from Captain to Lieut-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards. He acted as Assistant Adjutant General to Sir Charles Stewart. After being aide-de-camp to the Duke of York Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Henry Cooke, 2nd Baronet
Sir Henry Cooke, 2nd Baronet (29 October 1633 – ) was an English landowner. Early life Cooke was born on 29 October 1633. He was the second son of Bryan Cooke, Esq. (–1653) and Sarah ( Ryley) Cooke, a daughter of Henry Ryley of Doncaster. Among his siblings were Sir George Cooke, 1st Baronet; Sarah Cooke (wife of John Copley of Batley, Thomas Nevile of Thorney, and Christopher Ayscough of Kelsey); Bryan Cooke; Susan Cooke (wife of Charles Butler of Coates); and Margaret Cooke (wife of Acton Burnell of Winkburn). His father, the Mayor of Doncaster in 1630, was a Royalist during the English Civil War. Career Upon the death of his unmarried elder brother in 1683, he succeeded to the Cooke Baronetcy, of Wheatley Hall in the County of York. The title had been created in the Baronetage of England on 10 May 1661 for his brother, with remainder to Henry, in recognition of their father's services during the Civil War. Personal life He married Diana Butler (d. 1668), a daughter of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
