Henry Wilkinson Cookson

Henry Wilkinson Cookson (10 April 1810 – 30 September 1876) was an English clergyman and academic, who served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1847 until his death.

He was born on 10 April 1810 at Kendal, the sixth son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cookson.

[1] His pupils included Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin).

In 1847 he succeeded William Hodgson as Master of Peterhouse, and as Rector of Glaston, Rutland, until 1867, when this rectory was by the new college statutes detached from the headship with which it had hitherto been combined.

He died, after an illness of a few days, on 30 September 1876, in Peterhouse Lodge; and was buried in the churchyard of the college benefice of St Andrew's Church, Cherry Hinton.