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3 unusual facts about Anthony Cooke


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Anthony Cooke (1504–1576), tutor to the young Edward VI of England

Anthony Cooke

He was one of the co-owners of Burton Dassett in Warwickshire and conducted a lengthy, but ultimately unsuccessful legal campaign to block the sale of part of the estate to Peter Temple.

William Cooke (d. 14 May 1589), who married Frances Grey, daughter of Lord John Grey of Pirgo, by whom he had four sons, including William Cooke of Highnam, Gloucestershire, who married Joyce Lucy, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, and three daughters.



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