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Cook is commemorated in the village of his childhood, Melbourne, by almshouses and a chapel he had built in 1890. A plaque reads:"General Baptist Memorial Cottages and Mission Hall. Erected by Thomas Cook, a Native of Melbourne 1890". [9] In Leicester he is commemorated by his statue outside the railway station and a blue plaque on his home ...
Thomas Cook & Son, originally simply Thomas Cook, was a company founded by Thomas Cook, a cabinet-maker, in 1841 to carry temperance supporters by railway between the cities of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. In 1851, Cook arranged transport to the Great Exhibition of 1851. He organised his first tours to Europe in 1855 and to the ...
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 1754 – 30 June 1842), [2] known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, [3] was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke , Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby , and his wife Elizabeth, Coke was educated at several schools, including Eton College , before undertaking a ...
Holkham Hall. Top right: one of the four identical secondary wings.. Holkham was built by Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, [3] who was born in 1697. [5] A cultivated and wealthy man, Coke made the Grand Tour in his youth and was away from England for six years between 1712 and 1718.
The Thomas Cook Memorial Cottages in High Street were built by Thomas Cook, who started popular travel in England. Cook was born in Melbourne in 1808 though his birthplace was demolished in 1968. The buildings built in 1890–91 include fourteen cottages, a bakehouse, a laundry and mission hall.
Thomas Cook's lending banks and bondholders were to stump up a further 450 million pounds and convert their existing debt to equity, giving them in total about 75% of the airline and up to 25% of ...
The Earl of Leicester depicted with his baron's coronet Arms of Coke, Earls of Leicester: Per pale gules and azure, three eagles displayed argent [1] Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB (17 June 1697 – 20 April 1759) was an English land-owner and patron of the arts.
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.