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===[[name::Alexander Shank]] [[name::COOK]] [[date of birth::1811]]-[[date of death::1869]]===
====Biographical Note====
Likely born in [[location::Laurencekirk]], he was the son of the Rev. George Cook, minister of [[location::Laurencekirk]], and Diana Shank. Educated at the [[education::university of St Andrews]]. He was an [[occupation::advocate]] in [[locarion::Edinburgh]] from around 1834, and Sheriff Ross & Cromarty, and procurator for the Church of Scotland in from 1861.
====Books==== 
His library was sold at auction by [[auctioneer::Thomas Chapman]] in [[location of auction::Edinburgh]] over two days from [[date of auction::23rd March 1869]], with lots 1-452 belonging to Cook. The majority of his library was printed in the nineteenth-century, with some from the eighteenth-century. Lot 395 was a copy of Skene’s important law text ''de Verborum Significatione'' (Edinburgh, 1599), with autograph of David Herd (1732-1810). A copy of the auction catalogue survives at the NLS ((X.44.g.8(6)).

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*Boase, Fredric. ''Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memiors'', Netherton and Worth, For the author, 1892,  Vol.1
*''Catalogue of a valuable collection of books, including the law and general library of the late Alexander Shank Cook, Esq., Advocate, Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, a portion of the rare library of the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., law and miscellaneous books of the late James Bell, Esq., S.S.C., and of a gentleman deceased...'' Edinburgh, 1869
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