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

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for

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at the

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. 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