Humphrey Cook
Humphrey Wyndham Cook
1893 Born Chelsea, son of Wyndham Francis Cook (d.1905) and Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook[1]; grandson of Francis Cook, merchant of Richmond
1901 Living in the Chelsea house of Francis L. Barrett, his grandfather; also living there were 2 younger siblings[2]
1913 Married Gwendoline Gorton[3]
1916 Joined Royal Flying Corps[4]
1917 Discharged from RFC due to sickness[5]
1926 Married Gillian Hedderly[6]
1929 Competed in the Le Mans race with L. G. Callingham in a Bentley[7]
1934 Financed the establishment of English Racing Automobiles (ERA), which was led by Raymond Mays
1939 Humphrey Cook withdrew his sponsorship of ERA[8] having opposed the plans of Mays and Berthon to establish Automobile Developments Ltd.
1941 Married Annie Moffett[9]
1946 Still controlled ERA; proposed to make a modified version of the last cars produced before the war in his new workshops at Dunstable[10]
1978 Died
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Times, Oct 26, 1978