Biography de thomas cook

English businessman (1808–1892)

This article is about the travel entrepreneur. For the current travel company, see Thomas Cook Holidays. For the defunct airline, see Thomas Cook Airlines.

For other uses, see Thomas Cook (disambiguation).

Thomas Cook (22 November 1808 – 18 July 1892) was the founder of the travel agencyThomas Cook & Son. He was born into a poor family in Derbyshire and left school at the age of ten to start work as a gardener's boy.

Biography de thomas cook

He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker before becoming an itinerant Baptist preacher. He was a supporter of the temperance movement and his first foray into tourism was a railway excursion to Loughborough for members of the Leicester Temperance Society in 1841.

Following the success of this excursion, Cook, by now settled with his family in Leicester, began to organise tours further afield in the British Isles and, eventually, to the United States, Egypt and the Holy Land. In 1872, he went into business