James Douglas Cooke

Sir James Douglas Cooke, FRCS (1879 – 13 July 1949) was a Conservative politician from England. He served as the British Conservative politician for Hammersmith South In 1931, he became a member of Parliament, where he remained until 1945. He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list in 1945.

Personal background James Douglas Cooke was born in 1879 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of John Cooke, a pastoralist who had lived in New Zealand. In 1907, Cooke married Elsie Muriel. Together, they had one son and three daughters. At the 1931 general election he contested Hammersmith South for the Conservatives. This was a seat the party had lost to Labour in 1929 by just over 400 votes. Cooke defeated the incumbent Dan Chater by 12,638 votes to regain the seat for his party. He retained it in 1935 with a reduced majority of 6,068, defeating local councillor W T Adams.