William Fothergill Cooke

Sir William Fothergill Cooke
Born	1806
Died	1879
Residence	Electric Telegraph Office, London [1864] 4 Cavendish Road, Leeds [1866] Aberia, via Carnarvon, N. Wales [list Aug 20 1866] Branksey Lodge, Park Road, Balham, S. [1872]
Occupation	inventor
Society Membership membership ASL, AI ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1873.05.06 resigned [not accepted] elected_AI 1864 elected_ASL 1864.03.15 societies Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

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1873.05.06 a letter of explanation was ordered to be sent to Sir F. Cooke.

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Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor.
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.