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, 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.

CORNE, WILLIAM, son of Rev. William Corne, Rector of Tixall, Staffs., and Ellen Peake (IGI); bapt. Tixall, Staffs. 6 Sep 1775 (IGI); adm.; in school list Christmas 1788; KS (aged 13) 1789; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1793, matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1793, Junior Censor 1806-10, Senior Censor 1811-7, Catechist 1811-7, also Librarian; BA 1797; MA 1800; BD 1809; Examiner 1805-6, 1815-7; Proctor 1808; Select Preacher 1814; Whitehall Preacher 1800; ordained; Rector of Hambledon, Bucks., 25 Jan 1803, having been given permission by Christ Church 10 Oct 1802, to hold living for eighteen months, while incumbent was under age; Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1804, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1805, and Binsey, Oxfordshire, 1806; d. unm. 4 May 1818.

CORNISH, KENNETH HENRY, eldest son of Rev. Henry Hubert Cornish DD, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, and Mary, eldest dau. of Capt. Sir William Dick, Bart., EICS Bengal; nephew of Charles James Cornish (qv); b. 17 Jul 1833; adm. (Rigaud's) 1 Oct 1846; QS 1848; left Nov 1849; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1851; St. George’s Hospital; MRCS 1857; a medical practitioner in London; edited various scientific and political journals 1857-67; d. 1912.

COTTER, ROGERSON, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1762; Capt. of the School 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1767, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1767, scholar 29 Apr 1768, matr. Mich. 1767; BA and 10th Wrangler 1771; MA 1774; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1774; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766; called to Irish bar (King’s Inns) Trin. 1773; MP (I) Charleville 1783-97, 1798-1800; m. Sep 1794 Jane, widow of William Grady, and dau. of Richard Harrold, Limerick; d. 19 Feb 1830.

COTTON, HENRY, son of Rev. William Cotton, Vicar of Chicheley, Bucks.; b. 31 Mar 1790; adm.; in school list May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 12 May 1807, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1810; BA 1811; MA 1813; DCL 1820; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1832; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, 1814-22; ordained; Vicar of Cassington, Oxford, 6 Feb 1818-23; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, 1823; Prebendary of Cashel 1 Oct 1823 - Jun 1824, Archdeacon of Cashel 19 Jun 1824-50; Treasurer, Christ Church, Dublin, 12 Jun 1832; Dean of Lismore 16 Dec 1834 - Oct 1849; author, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, 1845-78, and other works; m. 29 May 1818 Mary Vaughan, dau. of Most Rev. Richard Laurence DCL, Archbishop of Cashel; d. 3 Dec 1879. DNB.

COTTON, RICHARD WILLIAM, second son of Henry Cotton (qv); b. 23 Jun 1829; adm. 10 Feb 1842 (Benthall's); QS 1843; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1847, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student to 1861; BA 1851; MA 1854; coxed Oxford Eight against Cambridge Dec 1849, 1852, and at Henley and Thames Regatta 1850; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1849; of Kilbree, Cappoquin, co. Waterford; [m. 1875 Catherine Power ?]; d. 27 May 1919.

COURTENAY, REGINALD, second son of Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (qv); b. 27 Feb 1813; adm. 12 May 1824; KS 1826; at Tonbridge Sch 1827-30; St. Alban Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Jul 1830; migrated to Magdalen Hall; BA 1835; MA 1838; BD and DD 1856; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Jun 1835, called to bar 22 Nov 1838; ordained 1841; Curate, Donnybrook, co. Dublin, and afterwards of St. Stephen’s, Dublin; Rector of Thornton Watlass, Yorks., 1842-52; Archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica, 1853-6; consecrated Bishop of Kingston, Jamaica, 24 Mar 1856; Coadjutor to Bishop of Jamaica 1856-72; Bishop of Jamaica 1872-9; Chaplain at L’Ermitage, France, 1881-6; author, The Future State, 1843; m. 23 Jul 1842 Georgiana, second dau. of Admiral Sir John Poo Beresford, Bart. KCB MP; d. 13 Apr 1906.

COWELLE, ---; b.; adm.; KS; left 1549 (Acts of Chapter).

COX, SAMUEL COMPTON, only son of Samuel Cox (qv); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 5 Jan 1758 (IGI); adm. 16 Oct 1765; KS (aged 13) 1769; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1774, scholar 5 May 1775, matr. Mich. 1774; BA and 11th Wrangler 1778; members’ (second) prize for Middle Bachelors 1779; MA 1781; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1779, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1781; adm. Inner Temple 15 May 1775, Lincoln’s Inn 20 Jan 1781, called to bar 15 Jun 1781; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1787-98 (occurs in annual lists 1788-98); Second Justice of Carmarthen 1 Aug 1798-1804; a Master in Chancery 18 Jul 1804 - Mar 1831; Lieut. -Col., Bloomsbury Inns of Court Associated Volunteers 9 Apr 1803; Treasurer, Foundling Hospital, from 1806; left Lincoln’s Inn 6 Nov 1806; FSA (by 1831); edited the fifth edition of Peere Williams’s Reports in Chancery, 1787; m. 23 Jun 1787 Anna, youngest dau. of Percival Pott FRCS, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; d. 25 Mar 1839.