Robin D. Cook
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Robin D. Cook is a British Conservative Party politician and he was the Mayor of Wimborne Minster, Dorset in 2006/7. He has been a town councillor since 2003. He is currently the deputy mayor of Wimborne.
Employed in the retail sector at an early age, he served an apprenticeship in Harrods. He moved to Dorset in 1972, joining the Beales group of companies. In 1987 he moved to Wimborne and after a meeting with Bill Tapper (a previous Town Mayor in 1978) led to his joining Tappers, a local firm, as the only non-family director. During the 1990s, he was chairman and president of the Wimborne Minster & District Chamber of Trade and was responsible for designing the current Town Guide, as well as bringing the present Christmas lighting scheme to the town.
In 1991 and 2007, he stood for election in Wimborne as one of the ward's Conservative candidates for East Dorset District Council. In both instances he lost by a literal handful of votes.
He is married with two daughters, one son and four grandchildren. He is a volunteer at the Priest's House Museum and he is a representative for the council on the Dorset Association of Parish & Town Councils, the Citizens Advice Bureau Management Committee and Civil Protection.
