Henry Frederick Cooke

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.

Sir Henry Frederick Cooke (1819) by Richard Dighton