John Cook (clergyman)

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John Cook

Principal of Queen's College at Kingston
Term	1857 – 1859
Predecessor	James George acting
Successor	William Leitch
Chancellor of Queen's College at Kingston
Term	1877 – 1879
Successor	Sandford Fleming
Born	(1805-04-13)13 April 1805 Sanquhar, Scotland
Died	31 March 1892(1892-03-31) (aged 86) unknown
Alma mater	University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh

John Cook (13 April 1805 – 31 March 1892) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister and educator from Quebec.

He was born in Sanquhar, Scotland, and educated at University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh. He served as a minister in the Church of Scotland, and was ordained in December 1835 in Cardross, and designated minister of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Quebec City (under the Colonial Committee) and arrived in Canada East in April 1836.

He was Minister of St Andrew's Church from 1836–1883, and was the founding Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in June 1875. He had also served as Moderator of the Church of Scotland's Canada Synod in 1838, not long after his arrival. Despite being under the tutelage of Free Church leader Professor Thomas Chalmers at Edinburgh, Cook remained with the Established Church in June 1844. He was asked to moderate the remainder of that Synod meeting in Kingston, following the defection of Moderator Mark Young Stark.

Cook also promoted education, started schools, and was associated with the early days of both Queen's College at Kingston, Canada West and McGill University. He was principal of Morrin College in Quebec City for 31 of its 40 years.

In June 1975, Canada Post honoured the Centenary of the Presbyterian Church in Canada with the issue of a postage stamp in honour of Cook. He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity in 1838 from the University of Glasgow, and the LLD from Queen's in 1880, following his term as Chancellor.

External links

Cook in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
The Rev John Cook

Academic offices
Preceded by James George, acting	Principal of Queen's College at Kingston 1857–1859	Succeeded by William Leitch
Preceded by New position	Chancellor of Queen's College at Kingston 1877–1879	Succeeded by Sandford Fleming

v t e Principals and Chancellors of Queen's University

Principals	Lidell Machar George* Cook Leitch Snodgrass Grant Gordon Taylor Fyfe Wallace Mackintosh Corry Deutsch Watts Smith Legett Hitchcock Williams Woolf

Chancellors	Cook Fleming Douglas Beatty Borden Richardson Dunning Stirling Michener Bendickson Lougheed Baillie Dodge

* indicates acting

Authority control	VIAF: 104465819

Persondata
Name	Cook, John
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	13 April 1805
Place of birth	Sanquhar, Scotland
Date of death	31 March 1892
Place of death	unknown

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