After service as an officer in the Peninsular War he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Duke of York in 1814; he was MP for Orford (1826-32).

REFERENCES TO Sir Henry Frederick Cook [Kangaroo Cooke]:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 March 1827 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)