Background
George Leigh Cooke was the son of a Samuel Cooke, from Bookham in Surrey.
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George Cooke
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Balliol College; Corpus Christi College.
Career
He was baptised on 12 September 1779. He was elected to a fellowship of Corpus Christi in 1800, the year in which he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree, and retained this position until 1815, when he resigned in order to marry. He took his Master of Arts degree in 1804 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1812.
He was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1810, retaining this post until 1853.
He was also Keeper of the Archives of the university between 1818 and 1826. An ordained Anglican priest, in 1820 he was appointed vicar of Wick Rissington in Gloucestershire, and also vicar of Cubbington and of Hunningham (both in Warwickshire).
He died on 29 March 1853 at Cubbington.
Membership
Cooke matriculated at the University of Oxford as a member of Balliol College on 26 January 1797, at the age of 17, and became a scholar of Corpus Christi College in the same year.
Personality
He was regarded as a sociable individual, who was one of the main figures of the Literary Dining Club for Oxford academics.
