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.
COOPER, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Cooper, Oby, Norfolk, barrister, and his first wife, ---, dau. of Yarrington [Yerington ?]; b.; at school under Vincent (W. Rye, Norfolk Families, i, 120); adm. freeman of Norwich 1807; d. young.
Cooper, Edward Henry Moyle, second son of Archibald Henry Spencer Cooper (q.v.); b. Jan. 6, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (R); left April 1896; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Easter 1896; B.A. 1899; d. at Montpelier March 18, 1926.
COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY, son of Allen Cooper (qv); b. 20 Dec 1826; adm. 17 Jan 1838 (Scott's); QS 1841; left Dec 1844; at Haileybury Coll. 1845-6; Writer, EICS Bengal 1847; Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar, during Indian Mutiny; CB 18 May 1860; Superintendent and Commissioner, Delhi, 6 Mar 1865; d. 22 Apr 1869.
Cooper, Gerald Ashley Peter, brother of Austin Eric Sisson Cooper (q.v.); b. May 5, 1903; adm. Jan. 18, 1916 (R); left July 1921; mercantile asst. to Messrs. Macneill and Co., Calcutta; Cuddesdon Theological College, 1934; ord. (London) deacon 1935, priest 1936; Curate of St. Matthew, Westminster, 1935-9; of St. John, Walham Green, 1940-48; Sqdn. Ldr. (Chap lain) R.A.F.V.R. Dec. 1, 1942 - 1946; Rector of Nigel, South Africa, 1948-51, and of Turffontein 1951-3; priest-in-charge of St. Mark's Mission, Mondoro, Mashonaland, 1953-6; and of St. Mary's Mission, Hunyani, since 1956.
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.