Henry Anstey Cookson CBE FRSE FRCSE FRCPE (1 July 1886 – 16 May 1949) was a British pathologist and bacteriologist.
[1] He attended Clifton College in Bristol and then studied medicine and chemistry at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1910.
[2] In the First World War he served at the 1st Eastern General Hospital[3] and was promoted to Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps in France.
[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1941 his proposers including James Couper Brash and Alexander Murray Drennan.
[7] He married Elizabeth Georgina Mackie at Chedworth in October 1915 just prior to leaving Britain to serve in the war.