John Douglas Cook (1808?–1868) was a Scottish journalist, known as the founding editor of the Saturday Review.
At an early age he obtained an appointment in India, quarrelled with his employers there, and found himself destitute in London.
Some of the Peelite faction, to which Lincoln belonged, had bought the Morning Chronicle to be their organ, and Cook was appointed to the editorship.
Contributors to the Chronicle then supported him in the Saturday Review, started in November 1855 on a new plan; and it was soon successful.
[1] He was buried in Tintagel churchyard and a stained glass window in the parish church was added to commemorate him.