COOPER, CHARLES, natural son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland PC, Paymaster-General; b.; at school under Nicoll (not in admission register or school lists, but see Memoirs of William Hickey, iii, 245-6, and certainly an OW since a donor of the Warren Hastings Cup); Lieut., 49th Foot, 24 Oct 1747; 14th Foot, 5 Jun 1758; Lieut. and Capt., 2nd Foot Guards, 3 Mar 1761; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 4 Mar 1773; sold out 25 May 1776 [or 1775 ?], because of gaming debts; Comptroller of Chelsea Hospital; went out to India as Cadet, EICS Madras, but recommended by Lord Macartney to Warren Hastings, and went to Bengal, where he acted as ADC to Warren Hastings (qv) and to Hastings’s successor, Sir John Macpherson (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 244, 284-5); present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Hickey, iii, 246); one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; returned to England in 1787, but was compelled to leave England again and to take refuge from his creditors at Boulogne, France; m. [by 1773] (Hickey, i, 299); d. at Boulogne some years after 1787.