About George Leigh Cooke
Lived 1780 – 1853 (aged 72–73). George Leigh Cooke was a mathematician, archivist and physicist.
George Leigh Cooke (baptised 1779 – 1853) was a mathematician and priest who held the position of Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford for over 40 years.
Life George Leigh Cooke was the son of a Samuel Cooke, from Bookham in Surrey. He took his Master of Arts degree in 1804 and his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1812. He was appointed Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1810, retaining this post until 1853. He was also Keeper of the Archives of the university between 1818 and 1826. An ordained Anglican priest, in 1820 he was appointed vicar of Wick Rissington in Gloucestershire, and also vicar of Cubbington and of Hunningham (both in Warwickshire). leaving a widow and several children, including George Theophilus Cooke.
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British mathematician
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George Leigh Cooke was born in 1780.
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George Leigh Cooke was a mathematician, archivist and physicist.
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