{{Short description|Australian judge}} {{other people||Richard Cook (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Cecil Cook | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1902|3|2}} | birth_place = Marrickville, Sydney | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1977|7|29|1902|3|2}} | death_place = Sydney | education = Newington College<br/>University of Sydney | occupation = Solicitor, barrister, judge | title = The Hon. Mr Justice Richard Cecil Cook | spouse = Llois (nee Leonard) | parents = Sir Joseph Cook and Dame Mary Cook | children = John Richard Ross Cook | website = }} '''Richard Cecil Cook''' (2 March 1902 – 29 July 1977),<ref name=cook>{{cite web|title= State Records|publisher= NSW Government|url= http://api.records.nsw.gov.au/persons/208|access-date= 18 October 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331161944/http://api.records.nsw.gov.au/persons/208|archive-date=31 March 2012|df= dmy-all}}</ref> was an Australian judge and a member of the Industrial Commission of New South Wales.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134098488 |title=Two New Judges Named |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |issue=24,336 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 October 1954 |access-date=12 April 2019 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} </ref>
==Early life== Always known by his second given name, Cecil Cook was born in Marrickville, New South Wales, one of nine children of Sir Joseph Cook, a politician and Prime Minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914, and Dame Mary Cook. He attended Newington College (1912–1920)<ref>Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp41</ref> and the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a LL.B. in 1924.<ref name=us>{{cite web| title =Alumni Sidneienses| publisher =University of Sydney| url =https://alumniarchives.sydney.edu.au/as/FMPro?-db=as_main.fp5&-lay=web&-format=..%2Fas%2Fsearch_list.html&-max=10&-error=error.html&-SortField=dLastName&dLastName=Cook&dFirstName=Richard&dGradYear=1924&-find=Go%21 | access-date = 18 October 2011 }}</ref>
==Legal career== After graduating Cook worked as a solicitor until 1928 and then read for the Bar. He was a barrister-at-law until 1954.<ref>Who's Who in Australia 1977 (Melb, 1977) pp251</ref>
==Judicial career== Cook was appointed as an additional member Industrial Commission of New South Wales in 1954 and as a judge of the commission on 13 May 1955. He was a judge until his retirement on 1 March 1972.<ref name="cook"/>
==Wool trade report== In the 1950s, Cook was appointed by the Attorney General under the monopolies act to inquire into the wool trade.<ref name=wool>{{cite web| title =Report by the Hon. Mr. Justice Cook in the Matter of a Reference by the Attorney General Under the Monopolies Act for an Inquiry into the Wool Trade| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6iX3PwAACAAJ | access-date = 18 October 2011 | last1 =Cecil Cook| first1 =R.| year =1959}}</ref>
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