John Grey of Pirgo, by whom he had four sons, including Sir Richard Cooke, Secretary of State for Ireland, and William Cooke of Highnam, Gloucestershire, who married Joyce Lucy, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, and three daughters. Mildred Cooke (1526–89), who in December 1545 married, as his second wife, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, by whom she was the mother of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. Anne Cooke (c. 1528 – 1610), who married, as his second wife, Sir Nicholas Bacon, by whom she was the mother of Sir Francis Bacon and Anthony Bacon. Catherine Cooke (c. 1530 – 1583), who married Sir Henry Killigrew. Elizabeth Cooke (1527–1609), who married firstly Sir Thomas Hoby and secondly John, Lord Russell (c. 1553 – 1584), second son of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford. Margaret Cooke (died 3 August 1558), who was a lady in waiting to Mary I, and in 1558 married, as his second wife, Sir Ralph Rowlett. Notes References Attribution Sources 1504 births 1576 deaths People from Romford English Renaissance humanists English knights Marian exiles 16th-century scholars 16th-century English educators High Sheriffs of Essex High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire Prisoners in the Tower of London English MPs 1547–1552 English MPs 1559 English MPs 1563–1567 People from the London Borough of Havering