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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.