COOPE, Octavius Edward (3 son of John Coope of London, sugar refiner). b. Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London; a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex 1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29 July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death; gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. d. 41 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty sworn upwards of £542,000. Licensed Victuallers’ year book (1876) 80–81, portrait; Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5 and 3 Dec. p. 2.
COOPER, Abraham (son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London, tobacconist). b. Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ 1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A. and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to Sporting, by Nimrod 1838, and other works. d. Woodbine cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. bur. Highgate cemetery. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii, 4–7; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 131–2 (1869).
COOPER, Sir Astley Paston, 2 Baronet. b. Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. d. Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.
COOPER, Bransby Blake (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper 1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk). b. Great Yarmouth 2 Sep. 1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec. 1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823, hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action against Thomas Wakley editor of The Lancet for defamation of character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols. 1843; Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery 1851. d. Athenæum club, Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 520–6; Medical Circular ii, 511–14 (1853).
COOPER, Sir Charles (3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames). b. Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. d. 12 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1887.
COOPER, Charles Henry (eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813). b. Great Marlow 20 March 1808; resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of A new guide to the university and town of Cambridge 1831 anon.; The annals of Cambridge 5 vols. 1842–53; The memorials of Cambridge 3 vols. 1858–66; Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor 1874; author with his eldest son Thompson Cooper of Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols. 1858–61; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, and other antiquarian publications. d. 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March 1866. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii, 139–40 (1887); Reliquary vii, 34–40 (1866).
COOPER, Charles Purton (son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London). b. 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented 2000 vols. on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of Notes in French on the Court of Chancery 1828, 2 ed. 1830; An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols. 1832; Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham 1835; Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell 1841; Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols. 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. d. Boulogne 26 March 1873. Report from the select committee on record commission (1836) 1–275; Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work (1834) i, 7, ii, 20, 23.
COOPER, Edward Joshua (eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin, who d. 1830). b. Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833 to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of Views in Egypt and Nubia 1824 privately printed; Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols. 1851–6 printed at Government expense, and Cometic Orbits 1852. d. Markree castle 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, 1–3 (1864).
COOPER, Frederick Fox (son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John Bull). b. 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, The Cerberus, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of The sons of Thespis, produced at Surrey theatre, Jenny Jones, Fleet Prison, Master Humphrey’s Clock, Black Sentinel, Rejected Addresses, The deserted village, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. d. 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. Theatrical Times ii, 177 (1847), portrait; Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2.
COOPER, Frederick Henry (younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of The Crisis in the Punjaub 1858; The handbook for Delhi 1863. d. Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.