Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, 1st Baronet (née Cooke; 28 October 1854 – 4 September 1944) was a British journalist and politician.

Biography

Born Clement Cooke in

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, the only son of Robert Whall Cooke of

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, Sussex, he was educated at

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, and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he read mathematics and law. He was called to the bar in 1883 by the

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, whereupon he joined the

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, and became Treasury prosecuting counsel for Berkshire. Later he was legal advisor to the House of Lords Sweating Commission and private secretary to

Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, (12 February 1841 – 14 June 1926), styled Viscount Adare between 1850 and 1871, was an Anglo-Irish journalist, landowner, soldier, sportsman and Conservative politician. He ser ...

, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1885–87). He was also examiner under the Civil Service Commission for factory inspectorships. Cooke followed with an active career in journalism, writing and editing for '' English Illustrated Magazine'', the ''Observer'', the ''

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'', and the ''New Review''. He wrote on imperial and colonial subjects. During this time he also wrote an authorised memoir of

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, Duchess of Teck, and a biography of

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. He founded the ''Empire Review'' in 1901 and that connexion remained for the remainder of his life. Cooke assumed the additional surname of Kinloch in 1905, which was also the year that he was initially created a

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. From that time a career in politics followed. Kinloch-Cooke became a member of the

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in 1907. He was elected at the

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as a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Devonport, and he held that seat until his defeat at the 1923 general election by the

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candidate

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. He was returned to the

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the following year as MP for

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,Craig, ''British parliamentary election results 1918–1949'', page 535 and held that seat until he was defeated at the 1929 general election. He served as chairman of Naval and Dockyards Committee for 14 years, and the Expiring Laws and Continuance Act Committee. He was created a Knight Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1919, and a baronet of Brighthelmstone, Sussex in 1926.

Personal life and death

In 1898, he married Florence Turbot, the third daughter of Rev. John Lancelot Turbot (formerly Errington) and Lady Kinloch-Cooke predeceased him on 15 August 1944. He died 4 September 1944, in

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at the age of 89.

References

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