Lived at Marple, Cheshire and died in Malaya while on National Service. Member of the Manchester Entomological Society and collected beetles with Eric Hunter, Colin Johnson and Peter Skidmore (see HUNTER, F.A.). Johnson (2004) and Hancock & Pettit (1981) record that a collection made by Cooke of some 2,000 British beetles is in the Manchester Museum, accessioned in 1961. It is accompanied by manuscript notebooks, identification notes/translated keys, and drawings and paintings of Chrysomelidae. There is an obituary by E.H.Fielding in Manchester Entomological Society Proc. and Trans. 1952-1960 incorporating the 50th – 58th Annual Reports, 1961, pp 3-4 which I have not seen. FRES 1958 – death. (MD 10/03, 12/06, 11/09).
Dates
21 June 1939 – 20 August 1960