Lieutenant Colonel Peter Joseph Cook (21 July 1924 – 22 December 2003) was an Australian Army officer, antique dealer and writer, and ABC Television panelist on For Love or Money.
Elsie, a Red Cross nurse, and Syd, an architect, had served abroad during World War I[2] and were both mentioned in dispatches.
Syd Cook was appointed Director of the Department of Housing and Construction in Western Australia[4] and Peter was educated at Wesley College, Perth, from 1936 until 1939.
His grandmother, Mary Turner Cook DBE, was the foundation president of the Newington College Parents' and Friends' Association.
[9] On retirement from the regular army Cook became proprietor of Grafton Galleries, in Double Bay, Sydney, an antique business founded by his mother in 1945.