Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (12 July 1825, in Horning, Norfolk – 12 November 1914, in Southsea, Hampshire) was an English botanist and mycologist who was, at various points, a London schoolteacher, a Kew mycologist, curator at the India Museum, journalist and author.[1][2][3] Cooke was the elder brother of the art-education reformer Ebenezer Cooke (1837–1913) and father of the book illustrator and watercolour painter William Cubitt Cooke (1866–1951).[4]
- ^ Mary P. English (1987), Mordecai Cubitt Cooke: Victorian naturalist, mycologist, teacher & eccentric. Biopress, Bristol, ISBN 0-948737-02-6
- ^ Taylor, George (17 March 1988). "Review: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke by Mary English". New Scientist. p. 62.
- ^ "Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 377.
- ^ "Cooke, William Cubitt". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 378. William Cubitt Cooke (1866–1951), was a book illustrator and watercolour painter, who exhibited at the RBA, the RI and the RA.