Robin Cook

The Right Honourable Robin Cook
Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council
In office 8 June 2001 – 17 March 2003
Prime Minister	Tony Blair
Preceded by	Margaret Beckett
Succeeded by	John Reid
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
In office 2 May 1997 – 8 June 2001
Preceded by	Malcolm Rifkind
Succeeded by	Jack Straw
Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central
In office 28 February 1974 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	Thomas Oswald
Succeeded by	Alexander Fletcher
Member of Parliament for Livingston
In office 9 June 1983 – 6 August 2005
Preceded by	(new constituency)
Succeeded by	Jim Devine
Personal details
Born	(1946-02-28)28 February 1946 Bellshill, Scotland
Died	6 August 2005(2005-08-06) (aged 59) Inverness, Scotland
Political party	Labour

Robin Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from the cabinet in 2003 in protest after the Invasion of Iraq.

Shortly after becoming Foreign Secretary, he left his wife, Margaret, to live with Gaynor Regan, his secretary.

He died of heart disease whilst on a walking holiday in the Highlands.

Cook was an atheist.^[1]

1. ↑ Mourners' funeral tribute to Cook