Edward Rider Cook (4 June 1836 – 21 August 1898)[1] was an English soap manufacturer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.
[3] He was senior partner in the firm of Edward Cook & Co., soap makers and chemical manufacturers of Bow.
[3] He was chairman of the unsuccessful London Riverside Fish Market Co. of Shadwell,[3][4] Honorary Treasurer of Society of Chemical Industry[3] and its President from 1890–91,[5] and a Conservator of River Lea.
[7] Cook married firstly Edith Piper in 1860, and secondly Ellen Leonard of Clifton, Bristol in 1873.
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