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==Early life== He was born '''Alfred Cooke''' in [[Salford]], Lancashire, England, the son of Mary Elizabeth (Byrne) and Samuel Cooke.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://hgar-pub1.bu.edu/web/alistair-cooke/about-the-center| title= About The Center| website= BU.edu| publisher= Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, [[Boston University]]| access-date= 29 August 2016| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160828232024/http://hgar-pub1.bu.edu/web/alistair-cooke/about-the-center| archive-date= 28 August 2016}}</ref> His father was a [[Methodism|Methodist]] lay preacher and metalsmith by trade; his mother's family were of [[Protestantism in Ireland|Irish Protestant]] origin.<ref>[http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-A-Fi/Cooke-Alistair.html "Alistair Cooke"], ''Encyclopedia of World Biography''</ref> He was educated at [[Blackpool Aspire Academy|Blackpool Grammar School]], and won a scholarship to [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], where he gained an honours degree (2:1) in English. He was heavily involved in the arts, was editor of ''[[Granta]]'', and set up the [[Mummers play|Mummers]], Cambridge's first theatre group open to both sexes, from which he notably rejected a young [[James Mason]], telling him to stick to architecture.<ref>[[Nick Clarke|Clarke, Nick]]. ''Alistair Cooke: A Biography''. Arcade Publishing, 2000. p. 35 {{ISBN|1-55970-548-5}}</ref> Cooke changed his name to Alistair when he was 22, in 1930.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1458120/Alistair-Cooke.html|title=Alistair Cooke|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2004-03-30|access-date=2018-06-25|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
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