Charles Cooke (Grampound MP)

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Sir Charles Cooke (died 2 January 1721) of Hackney, Middlesex was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1721.

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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 Grampound at the 1715 general election. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1716. He was knighted in January 1717 and appointed Sheriff of London the same year.^[1] Following his death he left a bequest to Morden College.^[2]

Grampound in Cornwall, was a borough constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1821. It was represented by two Members of Parliament.

The 1715 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 5th Parliament of Great Britain to be held, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. In October 1714, soon after George I had arrived in London after ascending to the throne, he dismissed the Tory cabinet and replaced it with one almost entirely composed of Whigs, as they were responsible for securing his succession. The election of 1715 saw the Whigs win an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, and afterwards virtually all Tories in central or local government were purged, leading to a period of Whig ascendancy lasting almost fifty years during which Tories were almost entirely excluded from office.

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Cooke died unmarried on 2 January 1721.

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References

↑ 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
↑ 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.

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[1] 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

[Lysons-2] 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.