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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.
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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.