Sir Edward Tyas Cook

COOK, SIR EDWARD TYAS (1857-1919), British jour nalist and author, was born at Brighton and educated at Win chester and New college, Oxford. Cook was connected with the Pall Mall Gazette under John Morley, and then under W. T. Stead, whom he succeeded as editor (189o-92). He was the first editor (1893-96) of the Westminster Gazette, then editor of the Daily News (1896-19o1) and leader writer on the Daily Chronicle (1901-12). He was knighted in 1912. His strong political con victions led to his resignation from the Pall Mall Gazette when it changed hands, and from the Daily News on account of its atti tude on the Boer War. During the World War he rendered valuable service to the official Press Bureau.

Among Cook's publications are

Studies in Ruskin (189o) ; Rights and Wrongs of the Transvaal War (i9oi) ; The Life of John Ruskin (19II); Life of Florence Nightingale 0913) ; Delane of "The Times" (1915) ; Literary Recreations (1918) ; and More Literary Recreations 0919). He also edited, in collaboration with A. Wedderburn, the standard edition of the works of Ruskin (1903-07). See J. Saxon Mills, Sir Edward Cook (1920.