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Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British journalist, television personality and broadcaster.〔(George Perry ) "The War at Home: Near Filed 60 Years Later," ''American Heritage'', Aug./Sept. 2006.〕 Outside his journalistic output, which included ''Letter from America'' and ''Alistair Cooke's America'', he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS ''Masterpiece Theatre'' from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present ''Letter from America'' until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.
==Early life==
Cooke was born in Salford, Lancashire, England, the son of Mary Elizabeth (Byrne) and Samuel Cooke.〔http://hgar-pub1.bu.edu/web/alistair-cooke/about-the-center〕 His father was a lay Methodist preacher and metalsmith by trade; his mother's family were of Irish Protestant origin.〔("Alistair Cooke" ), ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''〕 Originally named Alfred, he changed his name to Alistair when he was 22. He was educated at Blackpool Grammar School, Blackpool and won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he gained an honours degree (2:1) in English. He was heavily involved in the arts, was editor of ''Granta'', and set up the Mummers, Cambridge's first theatre group open to both sexes, from which he notably rejected a young James Mason, telling him to stick to architecture.〔Clarke, Nick. ''Alistair Cooke: A Biography''. Arcade Publishing, 2000. p. 35 ISBN 1-55970-548-5〕
Cooke became engaged to Henrietta Riddle, the daughter of Henry Ainley. While he was attending Yale University and Harvard University on a Commonwealth fund fellowship, she deserted him. He met Ruth Emerson, a great-grandniece of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in 1933, and they married on 24 August 1934. Their son, John Byrne Cooke, was born 5 October 1940 in New York City, New York.
Alistair Cooke divorced Ruth in 1944, and married Jane White Hawkes, a portrait painter and the widow of neurologist A. Whitfield Hawkes,〔(Obituary: Jane White Cooke ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 20 May 2011〕 the son of Albert W. Hawkes, on 30 April 1946. Their daughter, Susan, was born on 22 March 1949.〔Clarke, Nick. ''Alistair Cooke: A Biography''. Arcade Publishing, 2000. p. 240 ISBN 1-55970-548-5〕
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