Author talk:Geoffrey Montague Cookson

=Sources= Mentioned in "England, Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880-1892"

Death
Deaths Mar 1951 COOKSON	 Geoffrey M	 83	 Falmouth	 7a	60
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Birth
Births Dec 1867 Cookson	 Geoffrey Montague	 	 Northampton	 3b	86
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Probate
Name: 	Geoffrey Montague Cookson Probate Date: 	1 May 1951 Registry: 	Bodmin Death Date: 	3 Mar 1951 Death Place: 	Cornwall, England
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Marriage
Records his occupation as being Ceylon civil servant.
 * 1898

Noting that there are no census records for this person between 1891, 1901, 1911. There are electoral registration in 1921 onwards. — billinghurst  sDrewth  01:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon, p. 109 (1907)
GEOFFREY MONTAGUE COOKSON.
 * https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eUF_rS8FEoIC&pg=PA109

Mr. G. M. Cookson, B.A. Oxon, the Assistant Government Agent, Matara, was born in November 14, 1867. He entered the Secretariat in 1891, and in 1892 acted as Assistant Collector of Customs, Ttincomalee. He filled various appointments subsequently, such as Office Assistant to the Government Agents, Police Magistrates, Assistant Collector of Customs, Acting Government, Agent, Superintendent of Police, Colombo, Police Magistrate, &c. He was appointed to his present position in 1904.