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COOPER, JOHN GILBERT, eldest son of John Gilbert, Locko, Derbs., and Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Dorothy, dau. of William Bainbrigge, Cockington [or Lockington : check], Leics.; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1734; left 1740; assumed with his father additional surname of Cooper; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 18 Sep 1740, matr. 1740; befriended Bridge Frodsham (qv); wrote several books, including Life of Socrates, 1749, and Letters on Taste, 1754; one of the principal contributors to Dodsley’s Museum, started in 1746, under the pseudonym “Philaretes”; m. 22 Oct 1748 Susan, dau. of William Wrighte, Recorder of Leicester; d. 12 Apr 1769. DNB.

COOPER, JOHN; b.; adm.; BB; KS (Capt) 1672; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1674, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1674, scholar 1675, matr. 1677; BA 1677/8; MA 1681; BD 1703; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1680, Junior Dean 1703-6, Tutor 1706, Senior Fellow from 1711; Proctor 1701; signed petition to Bishop of Ely against Bentley; ordained; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., 1698; buried in Trin. Coll. Chapel 10 Dec 1714.

COOPER, JOSEPH; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1736 (Guyneham's); left 1737.

Cooper, Kenneth Herbert Lionel, son of Algernon Sidney Cooper, of Westcliff-on-Sea, and Anne May, d. of William Robert Godfrey of Basildon, Essex; b. 20 Feb. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (KS); left July 1929; Pemb. Coll. Camb., matric. 1929, played football against Oxford 1931-2, BA 1932; a sales man. ICI; m. 23 May 1942 Angela Lief, d. of Charles Kemp Cobby of Cottingham, Yorks; d. 14 July 1971.

COOPER, LOVICK EMILIUS, only son of Rev. Thomas Lovick Cooper, Rector of Mablethorpe, Lincs., and his first wife Emily Mary Swinfen, only dau. of Sir Thomas Durrant, Bart.; b. 28 Nov 1837; adm. (G) 23 Jan 1851; Ensign, Rifle Brigade, 21 Oct 1855; served in Indian Mutiny; d. 19 Mar 1858, from wounds received in action at Lucknow on 11 Mar 1858. Memorial window in Abbey, at west end of North Transept.

COOPER, ONESIMUS; b.; adm.; KS; an undated entry in the Treasurer’s Accounts, probably belonging to Feb 1627/8, states “given to Onesus Cooper, a minister, a Westminster Scholler XLs” (Chapter Muniments 34163).

COOPER, ROGER, son of John Cooper, Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Jane, dau. of Henry Gilbert, Locko, Derbs.; b.; adm.; BB 1676; KS 1679; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, adm. Somerset scholar 26 May 1680, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 17; BA 1 Feb 1683/4; MA 1686; a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Princess Anne, and from 9 Jul 1702 a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to her when Queen; lic. to m. 18 Feb 1687/8 Agneta, Dresser and Mother of the Maids to Princess Anne and later Woman of Bedchamber to her as Queen, dau. of Francis Jones, Newton Toney, Wilts.; d. 19 Apr 1703. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

COOPER, THOMAS, third son of Cassian Cooper, London, Clerk to Skinners’ Company, and Anne, eldest dau. of John Godde, St. Swithin’s, London, citizen and merchant taylor; bapt. 25 Sep 1569; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1580; at school (aged 14) 2 Jul 1582 (WAM 43050) (as Thomas Cowper, Sussex); QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1586, matr. 17 Dec 1586, aged 16; BA 1590; MA 1593; BD 1600; ordained; one of the preachers for the County Palatine of Lancaster; Vicar of Great Budworth, Cheshire, 1601-4; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwicks., 1604-10; living in Whitecross Street, London in 1620; subsequently appointed a preacher to the Fleet Prison; living 1624; author, The Romish Spider, with his Web of Treason, 1606, and other works. DNB.

COOPER, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Sep 1724; in under school list 1726.

COOPER, THOMAS, son of Richard Cooper, London; b.; adm.; KS 1674; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1679, matr. 12 Dec 1679, aged 19, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1679 - expulsion 1682.