George Frederick Cooke

(1756-1812)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cooke, George Frederick, 1756-1812 NRA: Cooke, George Frederick (1756-1811) Actor DNB: Cooke, George Frederick (1756?-1812), actor LBT ID: GeCooke1812 VIAF ID: 70028747 LOC ID: n79089719	B/BAP: 1756-04-17 DIED: 1812-09-26
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Shakespearean actor in London and the United States; his journals became the basis for the biography by the American playwright William Dunlop (1766-1839).
REFERENCES TO George Frederick Cooke: Thomas Dermody to Sydney Owenson, 2 February 1801 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Joanna Baillie, 13 March 1813 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 May 1814 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n3 Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, 6 May 1815 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Robert Campbell Maywood to William Hazlitt, 29 April 1821 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 3 Parry, William, fl. 1825, The Last Days of Lord Byron (London: Knight and Lacey, 1825) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 55 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ 1 Life of Byron: 1814 Found 2: ¶ n3 ¶ 2 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1812-13 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 13: Past Times Found 1: ¶ 2 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 53 ¶ 86 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVIII Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 18 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. I 1821 Found 1: ¶ 2 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 1: ¶ 52 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1815 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 4