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.
COOPER, THOMAS; b.; in school list 1736.
COOPER, THOMAS; b.; in school lists 1736-9.
Cooper, William Alwin, son of Lance Harries Cooper MBE, chairman Mond Nickel Co., and Mary, d. of Nathaniel Kinch of Harrow; b. 2 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (A); left July 1941; Corpus Christi Coll. Camb., matric. 1941, BA 1944, MA 1948; Capt. REME 1943, invalided 1946; asst master Cheltenham Coll. Jun. Sch. 1948-52, Sherborne Sch. 1952-81, housemaster 1966- 81, Governor 1983-; an artist 1983- (elected Roy. West of England Academy 1973), with numerous one-man exhibitions in London and provinces; m. 18 Aug. 1956 Dorothy, d. of Colin Maurice Tustain, chartered accountant, of Leicester.
Cooper-Key, Astley Langrishe, son of Major Sir Aston McNeill Cooper-Key, C. B., of Fulham, H. M. Chief Inspector of Explosives, by Edith, daughter of William Henry Mare, of St. John's, Newfoundland; b. Sept. 26, 1886; adm. Jan. 17, 1901 (A); left Dec. 1902; 2nd Lieut. (from Militia) Middlesex Regt. May 27, 1908; Lieut. March 24, 1911; Capt. Dec. 11, 1914; served on the western front and at Gallipoli, and was twice wounded; Deputy Asst. Provost-Marshal British Troops in France and Flanders April 7 - Nov. 26, 1919, Asst. Prov. Marshal Southern Command Dec. 23, 1919 - March 31, 1921, and Rhine army May 14, 1921 - Feb. 18, 1923; D. A. D. of Transportation Inter-Allied Navigation Commission from Feb. 19, 1923; m. 1st Oct. 10, 1917, Kathleen, daughter of Maurice Ansell; 2nd 1946, Anne Moran; d. Nov. 24, 1946.
COOTE, ---; b.; at school c. 1660 (Busby’s Account Book).
COOTE, CHARLES CHIDLEY, eldest son of Chidley Coote, Mount Coote, Kilmallock, co. Limerick, and Anne, dau. of Hon. William Williams Hewitt; b. 1 Jun 1798; adm. 19 Sep 1809; left 1811; inherited Mount Coote estate from father 1843; d. 22 Feb 1869.