Thomas Cooke, famous 18th century miser with his wife
Thomas - aeCabbage - n Cooke, 1725-1811, with his wife on a stroll. A porter who married a rich widow and bought a sugar-baker's at Puddle Dock. Famous for begging for wine, stealing ink, paper, horse manure, etc. Portrait copied from William Chamberlaine's illustration in his biography. Thomas Cooke, the notorious Islington miser. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield's Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869
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