James Cook

(1728-1779)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cook, James, 1728-1779 NRA: Cook, James (1728-1779) Captain RN Explorer DNB: Cook, James (1728-1779), explorer LBT ID: JaCook1779 VIAF ID: 31994819 LOC ID: n78091496	B/BAP: 1728-10-27 DIED: 1779-02-14
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English explorer; he circumnavigated the globe, 1768-71, but failed to locate a northwest passage.
REFERENCES TO James Cook: Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE WORTHIES OF THE GEORGIAN AGE. Verse 2: p. 36a p. 36a NOTES. Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 16 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 1: ¶ 48 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 12 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 1: ¶ 131 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Moore’s Life of Byron” in North American Review 31 (July 1830) 167-99 Found 1: ¶ 25 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter IV. 1788-1796 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter V. 1795 Found 1: ¶ 55 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 25 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) James Weddell 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 X. Found 1: ¶ 17 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: ¶ 17 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1803 Found 1: ¶ 4 Letters: 1806 Found 1: ¶ 2