Added By....... aulakhaman POST Date of post | Most Viewed | Most Rated | Posted by | Biography Cook, James 1728–79, English explorer and navigator. The son of a Yorkshire agricultural laborer, he had little formal education. After an apprenticeship to a firm of shipowners at Whitby, he joined (1755) the ro... Hitchcock, Henry-Russell 1903–87, American architectural historian, b. Boston. Educated at Harvard, Hitchcock taught at Smith College and New York Univ. His writings, which helped to define modern architecture stylistically d...