| Authorised form of name | Cook; Stanley Smith (1875 - 1952); engineer |
| Dates | 1875 - 1952 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 25 January 1875 |
| Place of death | Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 21 May 1952 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Research field | Engineering |
| Activity | Education:
The King's School, Canterbury (1889-1893); Cambridge University. (1896, 7th Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos), (1897, First Class, Engineering Tripos)
Career:
Gained practical training with C. A. Parsons and Company (1898-1900); joined the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company as assistant designer (1903-1948), subsequently appointed technical manager of the firm in 1910 and a director in 1930; retired yet continued to sit on the firm's board (1948-1952). |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/05/1928 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| Proposer | Richard Threlfall |
| Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton |
| Henry Cort Harold Carpenter |
| William Ernest Dalby |
| James Alfred Ewing |
| Dugald Clerk |
| Charles Algernon Parsons |
| Relationships | Parents: William Henry Cook and Martha Marsh Smith, of Canterbury.
Siblings: William Arthur Smith.
Spouse: (m. 1903) Emilie Clara.
Children: Rosina Dorothy and Reginald Robert Stanley. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 119-127, plate, by Claude Gibb |
| Royal Society code | NA5577 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1928/04 | Cook, Stanley Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/37/48 | Referee's report by William Ernest Dalby, on a paper 'Erosion by water-hammer' by Stanley Smith Cook | January 1928 |
| RR/54/137 | Referee's report by Stanley Smith Cook, on a paper 'The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | May 1934 |
| NLB/71/465 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Stanley Smith] Cook, Esq., FRS | 1 June 1928 |
| ACS/1/2/3/423 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Stanley [Smith] Cook [Esquire], F. R. S. | 16 June 1928 |