Major-General Sir Henry Frederick Cooke ('Kangkook') CB, KCH (bapt.
[3] His father, the son of George Cooke, descended from a line of prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas.
;[4] his sister Penelope Anne was married to Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan.
Cooke served as a Staff Officer during the Peninsular War between 1809 and 1812, being promoted from Captain to Lieut-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
Cooke represented Orford in Parliament between 1826 and 1832 and was described as the ugliest man in the British army.