Herbert Basil Sutton Cooke FRSSAf (17 October 1915 – 3 May 2018) was a South African-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist, and Emeritus Professor at Dalhousie University.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was educated at King Edward VII School before earning a B.A.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1948 for his contributions to Quaternary geology.
[1] A festschrift in honor of his life and contributions was published in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa in 2006.
Other honors include being a Life Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa, an honorary Life Member of the Palaeontological Society of Southern Africa, past president and Life Member of both the South African Geographical Society and the South African Archaeological Society, and past vice-president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science.