Sir Issac Bickerstaffe (28 March 1867–16 September 1928)

Issac Bickerstaffe appears to have been the pseudonym of Sir Theodore Andrea Cook (1867-1928). Cook was an British journalist and sportsman. He studied at the University of Oxford and stayed on as a private tutor after graduating with a second class honours in classical moderations (1888) and literae humaniores (1890). Cook wrote for the St James' Gazette and the Daily Telegraph, and from 1910 until his death in 1928 was editor-in-chief of The Field, predominantly a sporting paper for country gentlemen. Well known in the sporting world he was a member of the Council of the British Olympic Association and involved in the 1908 London Olympic Games. He was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1909. He wrote on diverse subjects including The Curves of Life (1914) a significant scientific study of spiral forms in nature and art, based on a wide knowledge of botany, conchology, anatomy, and art and architecture. Cook died suddenly of heart failure at home in London.