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Cook , Lady , Katherine , 1863-1938 , nurse
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Sir Albert Ruskin Cook was born, 1870; Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. B.A, 1893; Graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital. MB, 1895; Went to Uganda with Church Missionary Society mission, 1896; Established Mengo Hospital, 1897; MD, 1901; A.R. Cook and J.H. Cook were first to diagnose sleeping sickness in East Africa, 1901; President of Uganda Branch, British Medical Association, 1914-1918; Founded school for African medical assistants, 1917; Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School founded, 1921; retired, 1934; President of Uganda Branch, BMA, 1936-1937; Represented Uganda at coronation, 1937; Died in Kampala, Uganda, 1951.
Lady Cook, CMG OBE MD (1863-1938), was matron of Mengo Hospital 1897-1911, was involved in the foundation of the Lady Coryndon Maternity Training School and founded the Nurses Training College in 1931.