See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- THOMAS COOPER (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
COOPER (1805–1892)
, See also:English Chartist and writer, the son of a working See also:dyer, was See also:born at See also:Leicester on the loth of See also:March 1805
.
After his See also:father's See also:death his See also:mother began business as a dyer and See also:fancy See also:box-maker at See also:Gainsborough
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See also:Young See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper was apprenticed to a shoemaker
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He had a See also:passion for knowledge; studied See also:Greek, Latin and See also:Hebrew in his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time; and in 1827 gave up cobbling to become a schoolmaster, and, later, a Methodist preacher
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His affairs did not prosper, and after going to See also:Lincoln, where he obtained See also:work on a See also:local See also:news-See also:paper, he came to See also:London in 1839
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Here he became assistant to a second-See also:hand bookseller, but in 1849 he joined the See also:staff of the See also:Leicestershire See also:Mercury
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His support of the Chartist See also:movement obliged him to resign his position, but he undertook to edit The Midland Counties Illuminator, a Chartist See also:journal, in 1841
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He became a See also:leader of the extreme Chartist party, and for his See also:action in urging on the strike of 1842 he was imprisoned in See also:Stafford See also:gaol for two years
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Here he produced The See also:Purgatory of Suicides, a See also:political epic in ten books, embodying the See also:radical ideas of the time
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In his efforts to publish this work after his liberation he came under the See also:notice of See also:Benjamin Disraeli and See also:Douglas See also:Jerrold
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Through Jerrold's help it appeared in 1845, and Cooper then turned his See also:attention to lecturing upon See also:historical and educational subjects
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In 1856 he suddenly renounced the See also:free-thinking doctrines which he had held for many years, and became a lecturer on See also:Christian evidences
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He died at Lincoln on the 15th of See also:July 1892
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Among his other See also:works may be mentioned the See also:Bridge of See also:History over the Gulf of Time (1871) and the See also:Life of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Cooper, written by Himself (1872)
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