Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cooke, Edward
COOKE, EDWARD (1772–1799)
Son of Colonel Cooke : became a Captain in the Royal Navy : appointed to the Syhille in 1795, served in her at the Cape, and in the East Indies : off the Sandheads, in the Bay of Bengal, the Sybille fought between 9 p.m. on Feb. 28, 1799, and 2.30 a.m. on March 1, the French ship Forte, a much larger and better armed frigate, and captured her in the Balasore roads, 150 of the Forte's men being killed and wounded. Cooke received very severe wounds, of which he died at Calcutta, May 23, 1799. The E.I. Co. erected a monument to him in the South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta.