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George Cooke (died 1768)
George Cooke (c.1705–1768) was an English barrister and politician.
==Life==
He was the son of Sir George Cooke, a barrister who became chief prothonotary in the Court of Common Pleas, and his wife Anne, daughter of Edward Jennings, Member of Parliament for .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Cooke, George (c.1705-68), of Harefield, Mdx.,'' History of Parliament Online )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Jennings, Edward (c.1647–1725), of Little Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Mdx. and Duddlestone,'' Salop., History of Parliament Online )〕 He entered the Inner Temple in 1717, and was called to the bar in 1728.〔
Cooke was in practice as a barrister until his father died, in 1740. He had the life appointment as chief prothonotary, from 1732, and also inherited the family estate, Harefield in Middlesex.〔〔
In 1742 Cooke entered parliament, as member for , supported by Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Cooke, George (c.1705–68), of Bellamond, or Bellacketts, in Harefield, Mdx.'', History of Parliament Online )〕 At this stage, Horace Walpole called him "a pompous Jacobite". Leaving parliament in 1747, he was returned for in 1750. Initially a Tory, he became a follower of William Pitt the elder in the later 1750s. In the 1760s he opposed the Stamp Act 1765. He was still the member for Middlesex when he died on 5 June 1768.〔
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