Background
COOKE, Herbert Basil Sutton was born on October 17, 1915 in Johannesburg, S.A. Son of Herbert Sutton Cooke and Edith Mary Sutton.
COOKE, Herbert Basil Sutton was born on October 17, 1915 in Johannesburg, S.A. Son of Herbert Sutton Cooke and Edith Mary Sutton.
King Edward VII School, Johannesburg, Cambridge University and University of the Witwatersrand.
Lecturer, lecturer in Geology, University of the Witwatersrand 1938-1947, Senior Lecturer 1953-1961. Principal Geologist University of California African Expedition 1947-1948. Pvt. Geological Consultant, Johannesburg 1948-1953.
Professor, of Geology, Dalhousie University N.S. 1961-1981, Emeritus Professor since 1981, Dean Faculty of Arts and Science 1963-1968. Geological Consultant. President S.A. Geographical Society 1949-1950, S.A. Archaeological Society 1950-1951, Nova Scotian Institute of Science 1967-1968, Royal Commonwealth Society 1985-1991.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Dalhousie) 1981. Canadian Centennial.
Geology for South African Students (with G. N. Hamilton) 1939, Science in South Africa 1949, The Contribution of C. Van Riet Lowe to Prehistory in Southern Africa (editor with B. D. Malan) 1962, Evolution of African Mammals (editor with V. J. Maglio), over 80 scientific monographs and papers.
Travel, photography.
Married Dorothea Winifred Hughes in 1943.