Background
His father was a commander in the Royal Navy and his maternal grandfather was Captain Samuel Goodere who had been hanged for fratricide.
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Cooper Willyams
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Willyams was in France in 1784 when he also graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Career
Willyams was probably born in Plaistow House in Essex. He obtained a masters degree from the same college in 1789 and in 1792 first revealed his artistc skills in A History of Sudeley Castle. In 1793, he enlisted as chaplain on the HMS Boyne for its journey to the West Indes.
In command were Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Grey and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis.
The crew were ravaged by yellow fever but managed to get the French to surrender at Fort Saint Charles in Guadeloupe in the following year. Willyams became chaplain to John Jervis, Earl Street Vincent in 1797 and the following year chaplain of HMS Swiftsure captained by Benjamin Hallowell Carew, of Nelson"s squadron.
Swiftsure was at the Battle of the Nile and Willyams published an accountant His landscapes of Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar were posthumously published.
Willyams died in Russell Square in 1816.
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