Charles Henry Cooper

Background

Charles Cooper was born at Great Marlow, on the 20th of March 1808, being descended from a family formerly settled at Bray, Berkshire.

Education

Charles Cooper received his education at a private school in Reading.

Four years later he was admitted a solicitor, and in course of time he acquired an extensive practice, but his taste and inclination ultimately led him to devote almost the whole of his time to literary research, and especially the elucidation of the history of the university of Cambridge.

Career

In 1849 Charles Cooper resigned the office of borough coroner on being elected to the town-clerkship, which he retained till his death on the 216t of March 1866. His earliest production, A New Guide to the University and Town of Cambridge, was published anonymously in 1831. The Annals of Cambridge followed (1842 - 1853) containing a chronological history of the university and town from the earliest period to 1853. Cooper's other works are The Memorials of Cambridge, (1858 - 1866) and a Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1874). He was a constant contributor to Notes and Queries, the Gentleman's Magazine and other antiquarian publications, and left an immense collection of MS. materials for a biographical history of Great Britain and Ireland.

Achievements

• Cooper's most important work, the Athenae Cantabrigienses (1858, 1861), a companion work to the famous Athenae Oxonienses of Anthony a Wood, contains biographical memoirs of the authors and other men of eminence who were educated at the university of Cambridge from 1500 to 1609.

Works

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  • Annals of Cambridge Volume 2

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  • Athenae Cantabrigienses Volume 2

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  • Annals of Cambridge Volume 3

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  • Annals of Cambridge Volume 5

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Connections

Father:

Basil Henry Cooper

Mother:

Harriet