George Albert Cooke was born 26 November 1865, son of George I. Foster Cooke, Barrister-at-Law, in London. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, then Wadham College, Oxford, where he won the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholarship, the Junior Kennicott Hebrew Scholarship, and the Houghton Syriac Prize (1885). He went on to work as Chaplain and Fellow of Magdalen College from 1892-1899, Rector of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 1896-1899, Canon of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, from 1907-1909, Examining Chaplain to the Bishops of Rochester, Edinburgh, Oxford and Salisbury between 1909 and 1937. From 1908 to 1914 he was Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford while holding down the position of Canon of Rochester. From 1914 until 1936, he held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and Canon of Christ Church. He published a number of works, including History and Song of Deborah (1892), Text-book of North Semitic Inscriptions (1903), and Driver's Ideals of the Prophets (1915). He was married to F. Helen Anderson, with whom he had four daughters, and died on 9 September 1939.
From the guide to the Reverend George Albert Cooke Journals, 1884-1939, (University of Bristol Information Services - Special Collections)
