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2 unusual facts about Joseph Cook


Joseph Cook

Although there is a seat called Cook, that was named not after the Prime Minister but after Captain James Cook.

Cook was born as Joseph Cooke to William and Margaret (née Fletcher) Cooke in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme.


Cook Ice Shelf

This indentation was called Cook Bay by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia in 1914.

Richard Cecil Cook

Always known by his second given name, Cecil Cook was born in Marrickville, New South Wales, one of nine children of Sir Joseph Cook PC, GCMG, Prime Minister of Australia (1913-1914) and Dame Mary Cook.


see also

Dame Mary Cook

Sir Joseph Cook died in 1947, and Dame Mary Cook died on 24 September 1950, aged 87, at her Bellevue Hill, New South Wales.

Josephus Flavius Cook

Josephus Flavius Cook (1838–1901), commonly known as Joseph Cook, was an American philosophical lecturer, a descendant of Pilgrims who started his ascent to fame by way of Monday noon prayer meetings in Tremont Temple in Boston that for more than twenty years were among the city's greatest attractions.

Mary Cook

Dame Mary Cook (1863–1950), wife of Australian Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook