# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fothergill-cooke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:40.986Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fothergill-cooke"
name: "William Fothergill Cooke"
slug: "william-fothergill-cooke"
description: "Sir William Fothergill Cooke was an English inventor. He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, in 1846. He was knighted in 1869."
tagline: "English inventor (1806-1879)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cooke_William_Fothergill.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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birthDate: "1806-05-04"
deathDate: "1879-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump