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Not sure you're up to the challenge - and just who is Captain Cook anyway? Read on for our BBC Tees guide to Marton's famous son... Beginnings Cook, the son of a farm labourer, was born in the village of Marton on October 27,1728. Nobody had thought that there was anything unusual about his birth but when Cook died on February 14, 1779, King George III cried.
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Cook, popularly called Captain Cook, was apprenticed to a firm of shipwrights at Whitby and taught himself mathematics and astronomy. His skills as a navigator were noticed during his time in the Royal Navy. Cook's charts of the St Lawrence River helped the British victory at Quebec in September 1759. His observations of the solar eclipse off the coast of Newfoundland in July 1766 were published by the Royal Society of London.  Find out about Cook's first and second expeditions >>
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Born in Marton on October 27, 1728. Died February 14, 1779.
