sentences:  Cooke became a Deputy Lieutenant of County Antrim in 1971 and was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1981.He was created a life peer as Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, "of Islandreagh in the County of Antrim", on 11 August 1992.He married Alison Sheila Casement (daughter of Maj-Gen Francis Casement) in 1951 and had two sons (Michael John Alexander (b.