Person: Cooke, William (1779 - 1824)

• Comments

  VENN
  Adm. (age 16) at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, Dec. 7, 1765. S. of William (1730), Provost of King's. [Bapt. May 8, 1749, at Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1765; Prizeman; B.A. 1770; M.A. 1773. Fellow, 1768-86. Assistant Master at Eton, 1771. Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, 1780-92. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 1, 1779; priest (Gloucester) June 23, 1785. R. of Hempstead-with-Lessingham, Norfolk, 1785-1824. Translated Gray's Elegy into Greek verse–a translation said by Mathias to be worthy of Bion or Moschus, and published an edition of Aristotle's Poetics. Author, A Dissertation on the Revelation of St John, etc. Became mentally deranged. Died May 3 (? Apr. 27), 1824. Brother of Edward (1773). (Eton Coll. Reg.; D.N.B.)

Education Events

• MA : Cambridge / King's

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Ord	Cooke, William	21/09/1779	MA	Cambridge	View
  Ord	Cooke, William	23/06/1785	MA	Cambridge	View
  Appt	Cooke, William	30/09/1785	MA		View

Ordination Events

• deacon : 21/09/1779 (Keene, Edmund/Ely 1771-1781)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Cooke, William	21/09/1779	deacon	ordination	View

• priest : 23/06/1785 (Hallifax, Samuel/Gloucester 1781-1789)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Cooke, William	23/06/1785	priest	ordination	View

Appointment Events

• Rector : Hempstead (30/09/1785 - 26/10/1824 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Cooke, William	30/09/1785	Rector	Institution	Hempstead with Lessingham annexed/	View
  Vac	Cooke, William	26/10/1824	Rector	Death	Hempstead with Lessingham annexed/	View

Death Events

• Death (26/10/1824)

  Name	Date	Cause	Type	Full Record
  Cooke, William	26/10/1824	Death	Vac	View