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'''William Fothergill Cooke'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = William Fothergill
| name = Cooke
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Cooke,_William_Fothergill.jpg
| birth_date = 1806
| death_date = 1879
| address = Electric Telegraph Office, London [1864]<br />4 Cavendish Road, Leeds [1866]<br />Aberia, via Carnarvon, N. Wales [list Aug 20 1866]<br />Branksey Lodge, Park Road, Balham, S. [1872]
| occupation = inventor
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1864.03.15
| elected_AI = 1864
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL, AI ordinary fellow<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1873.05.06 resigned [not accepted]
| clubs =
| societies = Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
1873.05.06 a letter of explanation was ordered to be sent to Sir F. Cooke.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor.<br />He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Lewis Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, in 1846. He was knighted in 1869.
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===

=== House Publications ===

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