Francis Cook (3 November 1935 – 10 January 2012) was a British Independent politician, who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton North from 1983 until 2010.

Background

Cook was born in West Hartlepool and was educated at the Corby School (Sunderland), the De la Salle College (Manchester) and the Institute of Education (Leeds). Before his election to the Commons, Cook worked variously as a gravedigger, a Butlins Redcoat, a transport manager at a steelworks, a teacher, and a construction planning engineer.

Parliament

He was selected to contest Stockton North at the 1983 general election, securing the nomination following the defection of the sitting Labour MP Bill Rodgers who was one of the original gang of four who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981. Cook won the seat with a majority of 1,870 with Rodgers finishing in third place behind the Conservative candidate.

He served as Opposition whip under Neil Kinnock from 1987 to 1992. He was a member of the Speaker's Panel of Chairmen in the 2005–10 parliament. He was a lead campaigner for gun control following the Dunblane massacre in 1996, and it was reported that he once asked the Tory MP Andrew Mackay to "step outside for a fight".

Frank Cook was an American football coach. He served as the first head football coach at Buchtel College, now the University of Akron, helming the team for one season in 1892 and compiling a record of 3–4.

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Frank Cook was a drummer and former member of blues bands Pacific Gas & Electric, Canned Heat and Bluesberry Jam. For a time he was also the manager of Pacific Gas & Electric.

History

Having a background in jazz, Frank Cook was an experienced musician who had played with jazz musicians Charlie Haden, Chet Baker and Elmo Hope. He also had been in collaborations with soul artists such as Shirley Ellis and Dobie Gray. Cook became a member of Canned Heat when he replaced their drummer Ron Holmes. He then became Canned Heat's permanent drummer. He would stay with Canned heat until being replaced by Fito de la Parra. Due to the position vacant in Bluesberry Jam, Cook then became their new drummer. He later became a member of Pacific Gas & Electric. However, he had an interest in managing the band rather than being its drummer. For a time he actually did manage the group. A car accident finished his days as the drummer for Pacific Gas & Electric and he was replaced by Ron Woods. At the time of Pacific Gas & Electric's involvement in Lawrence Schiller's Lexington Experience film in 1970, Cook was still their manager. He transcribed the whole film in order to make out that the activities of the band relating to use of illegal substances were actually their lines if there would be any legal problems.

Francis Cook or Frank Cook may refer to:

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Frank Cook (21 September 1916 – 10 July 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Frank Cook FRCS FRCOG (6 November 1888 – 25 February 1972) was a Beit Memorial Research Fellow, an obstetric and gynaecological surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons in London (1917 and 1924), consulting surgeon at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and a Freeman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.

Early life

Cook was born on 6 November 1888, the only son of Frank Plant Cook of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, University of London (now part of King's College) having won a scholarship and research studentship in Physiology where he obtained first class honours and became a Beit Memorial Research Fellow. As a Beit Fellow he worked with Marcus Seymour Pembrey FRS to produce an important paper on the effects of muscular exercise on man. He was also one of the students with whom Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst made his pioneering investigations into the movements of the gut in man.