Thomas Cook was the founder of the great tourist agency of Thomas Cook & Son. He was born in 1808 and died in 1892. He began operations with short tourist trips from Leicester, where he lived, gradually increasing the length and number of his excursions; then moved to London in 1865, his only son, John Mason Cook, being now his partner, and the business extended with great rapidity. In 1872 he started on a tour round the world, to pave the way for tourist business, and in 1878 resigned the management to his son, John Mason Cook, under whose direction the operations of the firm may be said to have extended to the whole world. The latter was consulted by the British Government in connection with the Gordon relief expedition in 1884, and was entrusted with the conveyance of 18,000 British and Egyptian troops and an immense quantity of stores, etc, from Assiout to Wady Haifa. He died in 1899, leaving several sous to carry on the business, which grew to include banking and shipping departments. Under the auspices of the firm a trip round the world became an easy matter as early as 1900. Research Thomas Cook
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