page_title: William Cooke (priest, born 1821)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: William Cooke (priest, born 1821) / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Trinity Hall, Cambridge University. Buildings on Trinity Lane, adjacent to Clare College chapel, circa 1870. Image taken from original albumen print from a bound album of 58 Cambridge University photographs. Original 19th century album in the possession of Kimberly Blaker, New Boston Fine and Rare Books See also File:Trinity Hall Chapel, Cambridge University.jpg for view of these buildings from inside Trinity Hall, and File:Cambridge University, Trinity Hall Demolished.jpg, showing their demolition. The range was rebuilt by Alfred Waterhouse in 1872-3.
context_page_description: William Cooke, widely known as Canon Cooke, was a Church of England clergyman, hymn-writer, and translator.
  As an author he sometimes signed his work A. C. C., which stood for "a canon of Chester".
context_section_description: Baptised on 17 March 1821, the fourth son of Thomas Cooke, Esquire, of Gorsefield, Eccles, Lancashire, Cooke was educated at Clapham by the Rev. Dr N. Laing and was admitted to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 10 October 1836. He actually matriculated in the Michaelmas term of 1839, was elected a Scholar in 1840, and graduated BA in 1843, proceeding to MA in 1848. In 1844 he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England.
caption: Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in Cooke's time
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