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CHARLES HENRY COOPER (18o8-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 79 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:HENRY See also:COOPER (18o8-1866)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Great See also:Marlow, on the loth of See also:March 18o8, being descended from a See also:family formerly settled at See also:Bray, See also:Berkshire . He received his See also:education at a private school in See also:Reading . In 1826 he fixed his See also:residence at See also:Cambridge, and in 1836 was elected See also:coroner of the See also:borough . Four years later he was admitted a See also:solicitor, and in course of See also:time he acquired an extensive practice, but his See also:taste and inclination ultimately led him to devote almost the whole of his time to See also:literary See also:research, and especially the elucidation of the See also:history of the university of Cambridge . In 1849 he resigned the See also:office of borough coroner on being elected to the See also:town-clerkship, which he retained till his See also:death on the 21st of March 1866 . His earliest See also:production, A New See also:Guide to the University and T own of Cambridge, was published anonymously in 1831 . The See also:Annals of Cambridge followed (1842–1853) containing a See also:chronological history of the university and town from the earliest See also:period to 1853 . His most important See also:work, the Athenae Cantabrigienses (1858, 1861), a See also:companion work to the famous Athenae Oxonienses of See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, contains See also:biographical See also:memoirs of the authors and other men of See also:eminence who were educated at the university of Cambridge from 1500 to 1609 . See also:Cooper's other See also:works are The Memorials of Cambridge, (1858-1866) and a Memoir of See also:Margaret, Countess of See also:Richmond and See also:Derby (1874) . He was a See also:constant contributor to Notes and Queries, the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine and other antiquarian publications, and See also:left an immense collection of MS. materials for a biographical history of Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland .

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