Mordecai Cubitt Cooke 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. Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1825, Horning, United Kingdom
Died: 1914 (age 89 years), Southsea, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Children: Leila Annie Cooke and W. Cubitt Cooke