Editing James Cook (section)

====United Kingdom====
[[File:Memorial tablet – Captain James Cook and his family, Church of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0
|alt=An ornately carved plaque, mounted on the wall of a church
|Memorial to James Cook and family in the church of [[St Andrew the Great]], Cambridge.]]
His obituary in the ''The Norwich Chronicle'' read, in part:
{{blockquote|text=This untimely and ever to be lamented fate of so intrepid, so able, and intelligent a sea-officer, may justly be considered as an irreparable loss to the public... for in him were united every successful and amiable quality that could adorn his profession; nor was his singular modesty less conspicuous than his other virtues. His successful experiments to preserve the healths of his crews are well known, and his discoveries will be an everlasting honour to his country.{{sfn|Hough|1994|p=364. Biographer Hough mistakenly attributes this obituary to ''[[The London Gazette]]''. The quoted obituary is from ''The Norfolk Chronicle'', Vol. 554, 15 January 1780}}<ref>
{{cite newspaper
|url=https://www.lastchancetoread.com/docs/1780-01-15-the-norfolk-chronicle.aspx  
|access-date=30 May 2025
|newspaper= The Norfolk Chronicle
|title=Obituary of Captain James Cook
|date= 15 January 1780
|issue=554
}}
</ref>
}}

One of the earliest monuments to Cook in the United Kingdom is located at [[The Vache]], erected in 1780 by [[Hugh Palliser]], a friend of Cook.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://ornc.org/news/palliser-and-cook/
|title=The Governor and the Navigator: Connecting Sir Hugh Palliser and Captain James Cook 
|publisher=Old Royal Naval College Greenwich
|access-date=28 May 2025
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1124987?section=official-list-entry
|publisher=Historic England
|title= Monument to Captain Cook Approximately 70 metres to North of the Vache
|access-date=28 May 2025
}}</ref> The inscription reads, in part:
{{blockquote|text=The ablest and most renowned navigator this or any country hath produced... Cool and deliberate in judging, sagacious in determining, active in executing, steady and persevering in enterprising from vigilance and unremitting caution, unsubdued by labour, difficulties, and disappointments, fertile in expedience never wanting presence of mind... Mild, just, but exact in discipline... Traveller! Contemplate, admire, revere and emulate this great master in his profession, whose skill and labours have enlarged natural philosophy [and] have extended nautical science.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.captaincooksociety.com/remembering-cook/memorials/types-of-cook-memorials/monument-to-cook-at-the-vache-chalfont-st-giles-buckinghamshire-uk
|title=Monument to Cook at The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, UK 
|access-date=30 May 2025
|publisher=Captain Cook Society
}}</ref>{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=696-697}}
}}

A large obelisk was built in 1827 as a monument to Cook on [[Easby Moor]] overlooking his boyhood village of [[Great Ayton]],<ref>{{cite web 
|url=http://www.great-ayton.org.uk/tourism/cook/cook_monument/
 |title=Great Ayton – Captain Cook's Monument 
|access-date=20 September 2011 
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027202118/http://www.great-ayton.org.uk/tourism/cook/cook_monument/ 
|archive-date=27 October 2011 
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> along with a smaller monument at the former location of Cook's cottage.<ref>{{cite news
 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17137751 
|title=Captain Cook
 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald  
|issn=0312-6315
|date=26 January 1935 
|access-date=27 September 2013
 |page=16
 |publisher=National Library of Australia 
|archive-date=9 November 2021
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109015431/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/17137751
 |url-status=live
}}</ref> There is also a monument to Cook in the church of [[St Andrew the Great]], [[St Andrew's Street, Cambridge]], where his sons Hugh, a student at Christ's College, and James were buried. Cook's widow Elizabeth was also buried in the church and in her will left money for the memorial's upkeep.<ref>{{cite web
|title=St Andrew the Great Church, Cambridge
|url=http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/st-andrew-the-great-church-cambridge
|website=Captain Cook Society
|accessdate=13 August 2017
}}</ref> 

The 250th anniversary of Cook's birth was marked at the site of his birthplace in [[Marton, Middlesbrough|Marton]] by the opening of the [[Captain Cook Birthplace Museum]], located within [[Stewart Park Middlesbrough|Stewart Park]] (1978). A granite vase just to the south of the museum marks the approximate spot where he was born.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccbm/index.htm |title=The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Marton, Middlesbrough |work=captcook-ne.co.uk |year=2011 |access-date=8 August 2011 |archive-date=20 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720010546/http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccbm/index.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> Other tributes in [[Middlesbrough]] include a primary school,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/04/school_tables/primary_schools/html/806_2370.stm |title=Captain Cook Primary School |publisher=BBC |date=2 December 2004 |access-date=21 September 2011 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109015533/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/education/04/school_tables/primary_schools/html/806_2370.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> shopping square<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.captaincookshopping.com/ |title=Captain Cook Shopping Square |publisher=Captaincookshopping.com |access-date=8 March 2010 |archive-date=28 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328130339/http://www.captaincookshopping.com/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the ''Bottle 'O Notes'', a public artwork by [[Claes Oldenburg]], that was erected in the town's Central Gardens in 1993.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://teesvalleymuseums.org/object/bottle-of-notes-artwork-claes-oldenburg-and-coosje-van-bruggen-local-art-and-artists/
|access-date=28 May 2025
|title=Bottle of Notes
|website =Tees Valley Museums
}}</ref>

Also named after Cook is [[James Cook University Hospital]], a major teaching hospital which opened in 2003, near to the [[James Cook railway station]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.glendalehouse.co.uk/pages/captainCook.html |title=Captain Cook and the Captain Cook Trail |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-date=6 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906040659/http://www.glendalehouse.co.uk/pages/captainCook.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Royal Research Ship [[RRS James Cook|RRS ''James Cook'']] was built in 2006 to replace the [[RRS Charles Darwin|RRS ''Charles Darwin'']] in the UK's Royal Research Fleet,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/facilities/marine/jamescook.asp |title=RRS James Cook |publisher=Nautical Environment Research Council |year=2011 |access-date=5 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703104025/http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/facilities/marine/jamescook.asp |archive-date=3 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Stepney Historical Trust]] placed a plaque on Free Trade Wharf in the Highway, Shadwell to commemorate his life in the East End of London. A [[Statue of Captain James Cook, The Mall|statue]] erected in his honour can be viewed near [[Admiralty Arch]] on the south side of [[The Mall, London|The Mall]] in London. In 2002, Cook was placed at number 12 in the BBC's poll of the [[100 Greatest Britons]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/ |title=BBC – Great Britons – Top 100 |access-date=19 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021204214727/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/list.shtml/ |archive-date=4 December 2002 |work=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>