Anthony Cooke

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Sir Anthony Cooke [1] (1504 – 11 June 1576) was an eminent English scholar who became tutor to Edward VI. He is particularly remembered because of his attitude to educating his daughters who were taught both Latin and Greek.

The Cooke family home was the now demolished Gidea Hall at Romford in Essex. Cooke was a convinced Protestant who supported the claim to the throne of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey. This led to his imprisonment in the Tower when Mary I was able to secure the throne. After his release from the Tower, he fled the country to get away from Mary's reintroduction of Catholicism. He returned following the accession of Elizabeth I.

Of his five daughters, Mildred (1524–1589), the eldest, was married to Lord Burghley; the second daughter, Elizabeth (1527-1609), the infamous Lady Hoby, married both Sir Thomas Hoby of Bisham Abbey and John, Baron Russell; whilst the third daughter, Anne (1528-1610), married Sir Nicholas Bacon and became the mother of Francis Bacon.

Preceded by
Sir William Petre		 Custos Rotulorum of Essex
c. 1573–1576		 Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Mildmay

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^ There is a discrepancy between Nuttall's Encyclopedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the former spells the first name Antony and the later Anthony.

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