Douglas Cooke

Sir James Douglas Cooke, FRCS (1879 – 13 July 1949) was a Conservative politician from England.

He served as the British Conservative politician for Hammersmith South In 1931, he became a member of Parliament, where he remained until 1945.

[4] He served in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Prior to becoming an MP he had unsuccessfully contested the Peckham division of Camberwell, at the 1929 general election.

Cooke defeated the incumbent Dan Chater by 12,638 votes to regain the seat for his party.