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William Edmund Cooke
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 3/February/1914
Date of Fellowship admission: 17/July/1917
William Edmund Cooke was born in Aspull in 1881, the son of physician Luther Cooke. He graduated MD from the University of Liverpool in 1914 and later undertook epidemiological research in India and China. Cooke became Medical Superintendent of the Ochil Hills Sanatorium and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1917. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War and later organised a pathological service at the Royal Infirmary of Wigan, where he identified asbestos bodies, contributing to the recognition of asbestosis as an occupational disease. He died in 1939.
Year of medical qualification
1914
Type of medical qualification
MD
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.