Michael Humfrey Cooke-Yarborough [commonly known as Michael Cooke-Yarborough] was born in Singapore on 29 September 1915. He subsequently moved to Britain and studied at the Architectural Association School in London in the late 1930s. In 1939 he was one of the eleven founding partners of the Architects’ Co-operative Partnership [in 1951 renamed the Architects’ Co-Partnership (ACP)], an architectural co-operative all of whom attended the AA School.
Following the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939 the partnership was dissolved but was re-formed in 1946 with seven of the original members, including Cooke-Yarborough.
Cooke-Yarborough was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA). His address was given as Orchards, Kingswood Common, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in 1939. He died in Deben, Suffolk on 29 May 1995
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