Thomas Henry Cookes (25 October 1804 – 29 September 1900) was a British Member of Parliament. Cookes lived at Bentley Hall in

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...

, and was a captain in the county yeomanry. He was also a magistrate and a deputy lieutenant of the county. He stood for the Whigs in East Worcestershire at the 1832 UK general election, winning the seat. He held the seat in

1835 Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. ...

, and stood down at the 1837 UK general election.

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, after = Horace St Paul , after2 = John Barneby {{DEFAULTSORT:Cookes, Thomas 1804 births 1900 deaths UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies