F. John Peter Cooke
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Was born about 1818, was educated at S. Edmund’s, Ware, and at the English College, Rome, under the rectorship of Nicholas Wiseman. While at Rome, he was a member of the Little Oratory and used to visit the hospitals. Owing to his own poor health, he was for some years a professor at a college in France.
Newman described him in a chapter address of 1878:
‘He was a religious, well-educated priest, as his books in our library show; a theologian and a good ritualist, but a stranger to us, and a friend of Dr Wiseman’s, he was in a consumption and came to die in the Oratory. He was with us 14 months from first to last. We shortened his noviceship, and he died a triennial [on 12 November 1850]. He was buried at S. Wilfrid’s, near Alton Towers.’
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