Robert Cooke (Parliamentarian)

Sir Robert Cooke (c. 1598 – 1643) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643.

He graduated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 20 January 1615 and entered Gray's Inn on 21 May 1617.

He was Lord of the Manor of Highnam and was one of the seven commissioners who surveyed the Forest of Dean in 1639.

In November 1640 he stood at Tewkesbury but there was a double return and he was not seated as MP in the Long Parliament until August 1641.

[2] Cooke raised a regiment of foot for the parliamentary army by commission from Sir William Waller and was made a colonel.