Background
Cooper was born in Oxford, England, where he was educated at Magdalen College.
Cooper was born in Oxford, England, where he was educated at Magdalen College.
Magdalen College.
He became Master of Magdalen College School and afterwards practised as a physician in Oxford. Elizabeth I was greatly pleased with his Thesaurus, generally known as Cooper"s Dictionary. And its author, who had been ordained about 1559, was made Dean of Christ Church, in 1567.
Two years later, on 27 June 1569, he became Dean of Gloucester.
He was elected Bishop of Lincoln on 4 February 1571, consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1571, then translated to Winchester on 12 March 1584. He took some part, the exact extent of which is disputed, in the persecution of religious recusants in his diocese, and died at Winchester on 29 April 1594. c. 1517–1559: Thomas Cooper Esq.
1559–1567: The Reverend Thomas Cooper 1567–1571: The Very Reverend Thomas Cooper 1571–1594: The Right Reverend Thomas Cooper.