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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JOHN COOKE, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Edited by
James Stanier Clarke  and
John McArthur
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“weeping Pity bade her sorrows tell

How gallant Cooke and Duff in battle fell!

Lamented chiefs! whose fate too early prov'd,

They died regretted, as they liv'd belov'd!”

Dr. Halloran'sBattle of Trafalgar.

TO the distinguished names of Nelson and Duff, heroes who fought and fell in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar, we now add that of Cooke, another of those lamented officers, whose fame will be cherished and revered, “while memory shall hold her seat on this distracted globe.”

Captain John Cooke was the second son of Francis Cooke, Esq., Cashier of His Majesty's Navy. At the early age of eleven years he embarked on board the Greyhound cutter, commanded by Lieutenant (now Admiral) Bazely. From this first introduction into his profession, he however, soon returned to Mr. Braken's celebrated naval academy at Greenwich, that no time might be lost for acquiring thoroughly the first elements of nautical science and military tactics.

It was during his residence at this seminary, that he first received that patronage from Sir Alexander Hood, (now Lord Bridport,) which was never withdrawn through life. By his favour and kindness, he was borne on one of the King's yachts' books, and thus obtained the double advantage of prosecuting his naval studies, and reckoning his time as though in actual service.

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The Naval Chronicle
Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
 , pp. 353 - 440
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1807

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