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Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723-1769
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1723-1769
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.