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Samuel Edward Cook (178711 January 1856) was an
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Life

In 1840, he took the name of Widdrington, his mother being the heiress of some of the estates of that family. Having served in the
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he lived for some years in
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, writing ''Sketches in Spain'' during the years 1829-1832 (London, 1834), and ''Spain and the Spaniards'' in 1843 (London, 1844). In 1842 he was elected a
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. He served as
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in 1854. He died at his residence, Newton Hall, Northumberland, in January 1856 and was succeeded in the ownership of his estates by his nephew, Shalcross Fitzherbert Jacson, who took the name Widdrington. The name
Widdringtonia ''Widdringtonia'' is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (Cupressaceae, cypress family). The name was Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher's way of honouring an early expert on the coniferous forests of Spain, Capt. Samuel Edward Widdr ...
conferred upon a genus of African
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s in the
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(cypress family) was Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher's way of honouring Cook's great interest in Spain's coniferous forests, which the latter was among the first to detail scientifically. In 1831 he collected an Azure-winged Magpie - then known only from the Far East - in southern Spain which has since been given full species status as Iberian Azure-winged Magpie and the scientific name ''Cyanopica cooki'' in his honour John Gould's Birds of Europe


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References

* John Hodgson, ''History of Northumberland'' (1820-1840). * E. I. Carlyle
‘Widdrington , Samuel Edward (1787–1856)’
rev. Ian Campbell Robertson, ''
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, 2004; online edition, October 2005, . Retrieved 26 February 2008 1787 births 1856 deaths People from Morpeth, Northumberland Writers from Northumberland English travel writers Royal Navy officers High sheriffs of Northumberland Fellows of the Royal Society {{England-writer-stub