George Wingrove Cooke

George Wingrove Cooke (1814 – 18 June 1865) was a British lawyer and historian.

Cooke was born in Bristol and studied at Jesus College, Oxford (where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1834) and at the University of London, where he studied law before being called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1835.

His first book (Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke, written whilst Cooke was an undergraduate), was published in 1835.

Further books followed in the succeeding two years: A History of Party from the Rise of the Whig and Tory Factions to the Passing of the Reform Bill and a biography of the first Earl of Shaftesbury.

Other publications reflected his employment on a commissions relating to tithes and enclosures.