Cook, Walter ♂
Education
Student United College 1789-1790 Lat. Jun.; Gk. Jun. 1790-1791 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Log. 1791-1792 Lat. Prov.; Gk. Prov.; Ethics; Math. Jun.
Birth/childhood
Born 24.6.1776 son of John Cook, Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews University and Janet Hill. [University professor]
Career
Also at Edinburgh University - law student 1795-1796.
Apprenticed 1792 to James Ferrier, W.S. [Writer to the Signet].
Admitted W.S. [Writer to the Signet] in 1801 and practised in Edinburgh. [Lawyer]
Death
Died 17.2.1861.
Sources
- F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921
- History of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet (Edinburgh, 1890)
- Crombie, Modern Athenians - portrait Pl. 19