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Myles Cooper was born in February 1737 seven miles from Millom, in Cumberland County, England. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Cooper of Wha House Estate.
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Myles Cooper was born in February 1737 seven miles from Millom, in Cumberland County, England. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Cooper of Wha House Estate.
At the age of sixteen Cooper entered Queen’s College, Oxford, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1756, and Master of Arts in 1760. In the latter year he became an usher in Tonbridge School. On March 2, 1760, he was ordained a deacon and in 1761 he was ordained a priest.
In 1761 Cooper was elected chaplain of Queen’s College, Oxford. In this same year he published a volume of poems, written by himself and others, with the title Poems on Several Occasions. He was acting as the curate of a church near Oxford, when the Archbishop of Canterbury named him, in response to an inquiry of the governors of King’s College, as a man capable of serving as vice-president and succeeding to the presidency.
In the expectation of receiving this appointment he sailed for New York in 1762; but the governors, finding no authority in the charter for appointing a vice-president, made him an assistant to the president, professor of moral philosophy, and a fellow of the College. After the resignation of President Samuel Johnson in 1763 he was chosen president on April 12, 1763. His administration was notably successful. It was Cooper’s ambition to change the College into a royal American university. In 1771 he went to England to secure a charter and endowment for such an institution, but the most that he could accomplish at the time was a remission of quit-rents on certain tracts of land held by the College and a gift of books from Oxford for the library.
In 1765 he presided at the convention of Episcopal clergymen of New York and adjoining colonies. He thrice toured the southern colonies to secure the support of the clergy for an American Episcopate. He was also an active member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. When the Whip For The Whig was started in 1768, he contributed to the paper, never losing an opportunity to promote the interests of the Church and to give vent to his intense dislike of dissenters. He thought Whitefield a “common disturber of the peace of the Church” and his disciples either “Knaves or Madmen. ”
Cooper was a not less ardent supporter of the royal government. As local opposition increased, he put his pen at the service of those Loyalists who believed that nothing should pass unanswered “that had a tendency to lessen the respect or affection that was due to the Mother Country. ” In 1772 he and John Vardill, a tutor in the College, published two pamphlets, “Causidicus” and “Causidicus Mastix, ” in reply to an address of President Witherspoon of Princeton in which, they asserted, he had spoken disparagingly of the English universities. He and Vardill were also the authors of “A Series of Papers Signed Poplicola. ”
In the bitter controversy that preceded the break with England, Cooper was accused of writing nearly every Loyalist pamphlet; but none of the pamphlets usually accredited to him were his work. It is possible that he wrote the poem entitled “The Patriots of North America” (1775). When news came of the bloodshed at Concord and Lexington, he fled for his life to a British frigate in the harbor; and again on May 10, 1775, while Alexander Hamilton, then a pupil, harangued the mob from the College steps. On May 25, 1775, he sailed for England never to return.
Of this last experience he wrote a dramatic description in some “Stanzas” published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1776. For a time Cooper returned to Oxford as Fellow at Queen’s College. From 1778 until his death he was senior minister of the new English Chapel at Cowgate near the University of Edinburgh. He also was given various church livings in England and a pension by the Crown for his services to state and church.
Myles Cooper became one of the outstanding churchmen in the American Colonies and one of the most detested Loyalists in New York. He was also noted for his contribution to the development of King's College. During his time in office, changes in the curriculum and the rules of discipline to conform to Oxford ideas were made; a grammar school was started as a feeder for the College; a medical school and a hospital were founded, and large grants of land were secured.
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Cooper was a member of the Episcopalian church.
Cooper had a jovial and sociable nature. He always lived well, keeping his Cooper garret well stocked with liquors “of a most delicate Texture”.
Cooper never married.
