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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 HENRY COOPER (18o8-1866)  ,
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English
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antiquary, was born at
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Great Marlow, on the loth of March 18o8, being descended from a
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family formerly settled at Bray, Berkshire . He received his
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education at a private school in
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Reading . In 1826 he fixed his residence at Cambridge, and in 1836 was elected
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coroner of the borough . Four years later he was admitted a
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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
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literary research, and especially the elucidation of the
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history of the university of Cambridge . In 1849 he resigned the office of borough coroner on being elected to the
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town-clerkship, which he retained till his
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death on the 21st of March 1866 . His earliest production, A New Guide to the University and T own of Cambridge, was published anonymously in 1831 . The Annals of Cambridge followed (1842–1853) containing a
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chronological history of the university and town from the earliest period to 1853 . His most important
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work, the Athenae Cantabrigienses (1858, 1861), a companion work to the famous Athenae Oxonienses of Anthony a Wood, contains
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biographical
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memoirs of the authors and other men of eminence who were educated at the university of Cambridge from 1500 to 1609 . Cooper's other
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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
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Magazine and other antiquarian publications, and
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left an immense collection of MS. materials for a biographical history of Great Britain and Ireland .

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