CAPTAIN COOK'S WIDOW

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22561, 3 May 1935, Page 9

CAPTAIN COOK'S WIDOW

CENTENARY OF DEATH EMPIRE’S LONELY WIVES • LONDON, April 22. The centenary of the death of Captain Conk’s widow will be commemorated on May 13 by a service in the church of St. Andrew the Great, at Cambridge, where she erected a memorial to her husband and sons. In the course of a leading article The Times says that those remembering Mrs Cook on May 13 may well spare a thought for many others like her, who have been associated with the Empire’s history, although it is to bo hoped that not many have been so lonely as she, for she was a widow for 56 years, after having been a wife for 17 years, which her husband mostly spent on his famous voyages. Moreover, she survived her children by 41 years. Her pluck ami resignation made her a shining example to sailors’ wives, and while the Empire’s affairs still are largely conducted by men whose wives must choose between parting with their husbands or their children, the anniversary will he afi excuse for letting them know that they are not forgotten.