Cook, Mary Alexander
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Name (Latin)
Cook, Mary Alexander
Other forms of name
Cook, Mary, 1902-1981
Date of birth
1902-08-04
Date of death
1981-08-02
Associated country
South Africa
Occupation
Museum curators
Physicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Guide to the old buildings of the Cape, 2004:t.p. (Mary Alexander Cook) jkt. (b. 1902 in England; came to South Africa in 1926; d. 1981)
- Mary Cook; physician and cultural historian; author of books on historical buildings in the Cape; Mary Alexander Cook; born Barnsley, Yorkshire, 4 August 1902; studied Medicine at Leeds University, graduating in 1925; with her husband, the Anglican minister, Alexander Cook, she moved to South Africa, where they settled in Transvaal in 1926; in 1965, Mary Cook accepted the position of curator of the Swellendam Drostdy Museum, which she remained until her retirement in 1974; died Somerset West, 2 August 1981 ( (Stellenbosch writers WWW site, 5 Mar., 2015) )
- Franson, H. The old houses of the Cape, 1965.
Wikipedia description:
Dr Mary Alexander Cook (4 August 1902 – 2 August 1981) was an expert on Cape Dutch architecture and a museum curator.
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