George Wingrove Cooke

tithes and enclosures. Inside Sebastopol was a description of his visit to the Crimea during the Crimean War in 1855, and his work for The Times as a special correspondent in 1857 during the Second Opium War led to another successful book. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament on two occasions. After being appointed a commissioner in the copyhold commission in 1862, he fell ill in June 1865 and died of a heart attack on 18 June 1865.^[1]