Cooke’s Circus in United Kingdom

Cooke’s Circus
Type	circus

Owner	1780-1810: Thomas Cooke Sr. 1810-1866: Thomas Taplin Cooke 1866-: John Cooke
Founded	1870
Closed down	1908
Country	United Kingdom

Directors	: James Cooke (director)

Key People	: Michael Hengler (artist) -: William Cooke (artist) -: Henry Cooke (animal trainer) -: Rebecca Cooke (artist) -: Emily Cooke (animal trainer) -: Mary Cooke (artist) -: William Cole (artist) -: Charles Hengler (animal trainer) -: Harry Welby Cooke (animal trainer) -: Alfred Cooke (animal trainer) -: Hubert Cooke (animal trainer) -: Adelaide Macarthy (animal trainer) -: Leon Cooke (animal trainer) 1850-1851: James Boswell (artist)

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Description

Cooke’s Circus, United Kingdom , was founded in 1870. Cooke’s Circus closed down in 1908.

Comments / picturesThe Cookes, one of the earliest of the travelling shows, intermarried with such circus families as Boswell (South Africa), Chadwick, Cole (America), Ginnett, Krembser (German), Lockhart, Macarte, Powell, Shelton, Wirth (Australia), Woolford, Austin, Clarke, Crockett, Cruickshank, Franks, Pinder, Rowland, Sanger, Transfeld and Yelding.

References for records about Cooke’s Circus

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Cooke’s Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3579. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://collation.folger.edu/2017/09/nineteenth-century-family-circus/

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