Sir Charles Cooke (died 2 January 1721) of Hackney, Middlesex was an

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merchant and politician who sat in the

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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

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at the 1715 general election. He was

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of the

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in 1716. He was knighted in January 1717 and appointed

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the same year.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 Following his death he left a bequest to

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.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. Cooke died unmarried on 2 January 1721.

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Year of birth missing 1721 deaths English merchants Sheriffs of the City of London Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall British MPs 1715–1722 Knights Bachelor {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub