William Cookson

(1754-1820)

LBT ID: WiCooks1820	B/BAP: 1754 DIED: 1820-02-24
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (March 1820) 283; Venn; W. H. Auden: Family Ghosts
Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, he was canon of Windsor (1792-1820) and rector of Binfield, Berkshire (1804-20). He was William Wordsworth's maternal uncle.
REFERENCES TO William Cookson: Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 1