COOPER (or COUPER),

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 (c. 1517-1594)  , English bishop and writer, was born in Oxford, where he was educated at Magdalen College . He became master of Magdalen College school, and afterwards practised as a physician in Oxford . His literary career began in 1548, when he compiled, or rather edited, a Latin dictionary Bibliotheca Eliotae, and in 1549 he published a continuation of Thomas Lanquet's Chronicle of the World . This work, known as Cooper's Chronicle, covers the period from A.D . 17 to the time of writing, and was reprinted in 1560 and 1565 . In 1565 appeared the first edition of his greatest work, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, and this was followed by three other editions . Queen Elizabeth was greatly pleased with the Thesaurus, generally known as Coo per's Dictionary; and its author, who had been ordained about 1559, was made dean of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1567 . Two years later he became dean of Gloucester, in 1571 bishop of Lincoln and in 1584 bishop of Winchester . Cooper was a stout controversialist; he defended the practice and precept of the Church of England against the Roman Catholics on the one hand and against the Martin Marprelate writings and the Puritans on the other . 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 the 29th of April 1594 . Cooper's Admonition against Martin Marprelate was reprinted in 1847, and his Answer in Defence of the Truth against the Apology of Private Mass in 185o .