3-017-094 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dedication of the Monument on the battle-field of Bull Run, Virginia, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank. 'A brief memoir of this gentleman, appeared in our Journal a few weeks back, on the occasion of his sudden death, which took place, at his residence in Chelsea, on the 18th June...Mr. Wingrove Cooke was a barrister and special pleader of the Inner Temple, and was perhaps better known to the public as having been the Times' special correspondent in China. He was also the author of an able work, entitled "The History of Party," giving an account of the Whig Ministry under Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne, and of the legislation which accompanied the Reform Bill. In 1859 Mr. Cooke was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of Marylebone. As a writer on legal subjects he had gained much reputation by his treatises on the law of tithes and on copyhold tenures: so that, upon the death of Mr. Mules, a few years back, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithes Commission; and this appointment, which was made with the general approval of the legal profession, Mr. Wingrove Cooke continued to hold until the day of his death. His narrative of the war in China has considerable literary merits'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.