COOTE, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1601, adm. pens. 1601 ?, scholar 16 Apr 1602; BA 1605/6; MA 1609 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1611); BD 1617; Fellow of Trinity Coll. from 1608; a conspicuous figure in the great riot at the gate of Trinity Coll. Feb 1610/1 (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. Publications, octavo series, no. xliii, 1906); ordained deacon and priest (Peterborough) 10 May 1612; Vicar of Bottisham, Cambs., 1617; d. 1619.

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, 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, ROGER, son of John Cooper, Thurgarton Priory, Notts., and Jane, dau. of Henry Gilbert, Locko, Derbs.; b.; adm.; BB 1676; KS 1679; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, adm. Somerset scholar 26 May 1680, matr. 27 May 1680, aged 17; BA 1 Feb 1683/4; MA 1686; a Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Princess Anne, and from 9 Jul 1702 a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to her when Queen; lic. to m. 18 Feb 1687/8 Agneta, Dresser and Mother of the Maids to Princess Anne and later Woman of Bedchamber to her as Queen, dau. of Francis Jones, Newton Toney, Wilts.; d. 19 Apr 1703. Buried in East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

COOPER, ONESIMUS; b.; adm.; KS; an undated entry in the Treasurer’s Accounts, probably belonging to Feb 1627/8, states “given to Onesus Cooper, a minister, a Westminster Scholler XLs” (Chapter Muniments 34163).

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.

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, 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, CHARLES, son of John Cooper, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1734; KS 1740; Capt. of the School 1744; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1745, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1745, scholar 25 Apr 1746; 7th in Maths Tripos 1748/9; BA 1748/9; MA 1752; DD 1769; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1751, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1752; ordained deacon (Ely) 28 Dec 1756, priest 19 May 1757; Westminster School Usher Jun 1748 – Jun 1762 (Senior Usher May 1756), House Usher, 1 Little Dean’s Yard (described as “usher of my house” in the will of Mrs Frances Watts, Dame (qv)); Prebendary of York 11 Aug 1768 - Sep 1779; Prebendary of Salisbury, 17 Mar 1773- res 1779; Rector of Kirkby Overblow, Yorks., from 1774; Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts.; Prebendary of Durham from 29 Aug 1779; Archdeacon of York 2 Aug 1786- res 28 Jun 1794; d. 10 Oct 1804. [Perhaps Charles Cooper, son of John Cooper, and Elizabeth ---, bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 7 Oct 1725]

COOPER, ALLEN TREVELYAN, son of Allen Cooper (qv) and his first wife; b. 11 Jun 1825; adm. 17 Jan 1838 (Scott's); QS 1839; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1843, adm. pens. 29 May 1843, scholar 1844, matr. Mich. 1843; BA 1847; MA 1852; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849 (both London); Chaplain to Embassy at Lisbon; Curate, Buckland, Devon, subsequently Swanscombe, Kent; m. 16 Mar 1865 Lucy Evans (IGI); d. 24 Jul 1866.