Background
Cooper was the son of William Cooper Doctor of Medicine of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Cooper was the son of William Cooper Doctor of Medicine of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He was educated at Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was scholar in 1745 and was awarded Bachelor in 1747 and Master of Arts in 1750.
He was admitted at Inner Temple on 17 July 1747 and was called to the Barometer He became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1749. He was a Member of Parliament for Grampound, Cornwall from 1768 to 1774.
He was a Member of Parliament for Saltash from 1774 to 1784.
He was a Member of Parliament for Richmond, Yorkshire from 1786 to 1790. Foreign much of his career he was Secretary of the Treasury under various administrations.
He claimed to have inherited the baronetcy of Cooper of Gogan from 1775 on, thus calling himself Sir Grey Cooper, Baronet. Whether that baronetcy ever existed and whether Cooper was heir to it are doubtful.
Grey died suddenly at his home in Worlington, Suffolk at the age of 75.
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He was a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Rochester from 1765 to 1768.
