Background
He was born at Street Martin"s in Cornwall to wheelwright Thomas Cooke and Jane.
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Henry Cooke
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Career
He moved to Victoria in 1857 and New South Wales in 1861, where he worked as a miner and storekeeper. Having settled in the Forbes area, he founded the Forbes and Parkes Gazette and was its initial editors He served as a Parkes alderman and the town"s first mayor.
In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Forbes, but he was defeated in 1882.
He returned in 1887 as a Free Trader, serving until his defeat in 1891. Cooke died at Parkes in 1903.
