Anthony Cooke (Royal Navy officer)

Rear admiral Anthony John Cooke CB (21 September 1927 – 1 December 2019) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Educated at the St Edward's School, Oxford, Cooke joined the Royal Navy in 1945.

[1] He became Commodore in command of HMNB Clyde in 1973, Senior Naval Member on the staff of the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1975 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1978 before retiring in 1980.

[3] In retirement he became Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor of London.

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