Albert Ruskin Cook

English medical missionary (1870-1951) · United Kingdom · On the map · Doctors · Died at 81

Sir Albert Ruskin Cook, CMG, OBE was a British medical missionary in Uganda, and the founder of Mulago Hospital and Mengo Hospital. Together with his wife, Katharine Cook (1863-1938), he established a maternity training school in Uganda.

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Albert Ruskin Cook in Uganda, 1897

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Cook's grave, center right, next to the one of his wife in 2024.

Awards

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Bachelor

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