Henry Cooke (Australian politician)
Henry Harry Cooke (1840 – 22 June 1903) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born at
Victoria in 1857 and New South Wales in 1861, where he worked as a miner and storekeeper. On 19 August 1869 he married Mary Ann Isabel Peacock, with whom he had nine children.[1] Having settled in the Forbes area, he founded the Forbes and Parkes Gazette and was its initial editor.[2] He served as a Parkes alderman and the town's first mayor.[1] In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Forbes, but he was defeated in 1882. He returned in 1887 as a Free Trader, serving until his defeat in 1891.[3]
Cooke died at Parkes in 1903 (aged 63).[1][4]
References
- ^ a b c "Mr Henry Harry Cooke (1840-1903)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ "Parliamentary portraits: Mr H H Cooke MLA for Forbes". Australian Town and Country Journal. 16 April 1887. p. 13. Retrieved 6 July 2021 – via Trove.
- ^ Green, Antony. "Elections for the District of Forbes". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Death: Mr Henry A Cooke of Parkes". The Sydney Morning Herald. 23 June 1903. p. 4. Retrieved 6 July 2021 – via Trove.