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COOPER, Abraham (son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London, tobacconist). b. Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ 1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A. and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to Sporting, by Nimrod 1838, and other works. d. Woodbine cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. bur. Highgate cemetery. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii, 4–7; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 131–2 (1869).

COOPER, Sir Astley Paston, 2 Baronet. b. Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. d. Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

COOPER, Bransby Blake (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper 1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk). b. Great Yarmouth 2 Sep. 1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec. 1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823, hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action against Thomas Wakley editor of The Lancet for defamation of character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols. 1843; Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery 1851. d. Athenæum club, Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 520–6; Medical Circular ii, 511–14 (1853).

COOPER, Sir Charles (3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames). b. Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. d. 12 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1887.

COOPER, Charles Henry (eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813). b. Great Marlow 20 March 1808; resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of A new guide to the university and town of Cambridge 1831 anon.; The annals of Cambridge 5 vols. 1842–53; The memorials of Cambridge 3 vols. 1858–66; Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor 1874; author with his eldest son Thompson Cooper of Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols. 1858–61; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, and other antiquarian publications. d. 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March 1866. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii, 139–40 (1887); Reliquary vii, 34–40 (1866).

COOPER, Charles Purton (son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London). b. 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented 2000 vols. on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of Notes in French on the Court of Chancery 1828, 2 ed. 1830; An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols. 1832; Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham 1835; Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell 1841; Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols. 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. d. Boulogne 26 March 1873. Report from the select committee on record commission (1836) 1–275; Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work (1834) i, 7, ii, 20, 23.

COOPER, Edward Joshua (eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin, who d. 1830). b. Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833 to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of Views in Egypt and Nubia 1824 privately printed; Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols. 1851–6 printed at Government expense, and Cometic Orbits 1852. d. Markree castle 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, 1–3 (1864).

COOPER, Frederick Fox (son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John Bull). b. 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the Nelson Examiner, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, The Cerberus, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of The sons of Thespis, produced at Surrey theatre, Jenny Jones, Fleet Prison, Master Humphrey’s Clock, Black Sentinel, Rejected Addresses, The deserted village, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. d. 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. Theatrical Times ii, 177 (1847), portrait; Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2.

COOPER, Frederick Henry (younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of The Crisis in the Punjaub 1858; The handbook for Delhi 1863. d. Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.

COOPER, George (son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s cathedral, who d. 1843). b. Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes 1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to death; author of The organist’s assistant; The organist’s manual 1851, 26 numbers; Organ arrangements 3 vols. 1864 etc.; Classical extracts for the organ 1867–69, seven numbers; Introduction to the organ; Maud Irving or the little orphan, An operetta in 5 acts 1872. d. 2 Oct. 1876. Musical Standard 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec.

COOPER, Henry. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19 July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79 foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug. 1878.

COOPER, Henry Christopher, b. Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera; leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals; conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost of English school of violinists, d. 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26 Jany. 1881.

COOPER, John (son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith). b. Bath 1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama Inkle and Yarico; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in The honeymoon and received £4 a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff; played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. d. Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v, 73–86 (1826), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 74–80 (1837); Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate (Lucy’s ed. 1872), portrait.

COOPER, John Ramsay. Chemist and druggist at 17 High st. Canterbury; a prominent promoter of the blue riband movement; invented phonic system of teaching reading, which was adopted in many of the principal elementary schools in England 1885; bankrupt on his own petition, June 1885; died at the police station, Canterbury 5 July 1885 from taking a solution of strychnia and about 15 or 20 grains of the salt; coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he committed suicide while of unsound mind.

COOPER, John Wilbye, always known as Wilbye Cooper. Tenor vocalist to 1870; composed songs entitled Ah where are now those happy hours 1852; The old cottager 1852; author of The voice, the music of language and the soul of song, a short essay on the art of singing 1874; edited Cramer’s Educational Course consisting of Cramer’s Vocal Tutor 2 parts 1867, and Cramer’s New Singing Method 4 parts 1872–74. d. 20 Castellain road, Maida hill, London 19 March 1885.

COOPER, Joseph Thomas. b. London 25 May 1819; organist of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe 1837, of St. Paul’s, Balls Pond, London 1844, of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. 1866 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1876 to death; musical editor of Evening Hours, monthly mag. March 1871; F.R.A.S. 1845. d. 113 Grosvenor road, Highbury 17 Nov. 1879.

COOPER, Robert. Educ. at Charter house school; went to Canada; edited British Canadian paper at Toronto 1846; edited Herald paper at London, Upper Canada; county judge of united counties of Huron and Bruce 1856; published Rules and practice of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, Toronto 1851. d. Goderich, Upper Canada 19 June 1866.

COOPER, Thomas Thornville (8 son of John J. Cooper of Bishopwearmouth, coalfitter). b. Bishopwearmouth 13 Sep. 1839; made several journeys into interior of Australia; clerk in house of Arbuthnot and Co. at Madras 1859–61; joined Shanghai volunteers and helped to protect that city against Taiping rebels 1863; attempted to penetrate from China through Tibet to India 1868; attempted to enter China from Assam 1869; political agent at Bamo; attached to political department of India office, London; sent to India with despatches and presents to the viceroy in connection with imperial durbar of Delhi 1876; re-appointed political agent at Bamo; author of Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats 1871; Mishmee hills, an account of a journey 1873; murdered by a sepoy at Bamo 24 April 1878. W. Gill’s River of Golden sand, new ed. 1883 introduction p. 108, portrait and p. 323.

COOPER, Rev. William. R. of Wadingham, Lincs. March 1808 to death; R. of West Rasen, Lincs. 1809 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1830 to death. d. West Rasen rectory 24 Aug. 1856 aged 86.

COOPER, William (son of Charles Cooper of Norwich, barrister, who d. 21 July 1836). b. 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; comr. of bankruptcy for Norwich 1832–42; a revising barrister for Leics. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Metropolitan police; one of counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Ipswich, Dec. 1874 to death; author of A sketch of the life of H. Cooper and of C. Cooper 1856 and of 3 dramas The student of Jena 1842, Mokanna 1843 and Zopyrus 1856. d. 25 Great Russell st. Bedford sq. London 17 Sep. 1877.

COOPER, William Durrant (eld. son of Thomas Cooper of Lewes, solicitor 1789–1841). b. High st. Lewes 10 Jany. 1812; solicitor at Lewes 1833–7; on parliamentary staff of Morning Chronicle and Times 1837; solicitor to Reform club 1837; solicitor to vestry of St. Pancras 20 Dec. 1858; F.S.A. 11 March 1841; author of The parliamentary history of the county of Sussex 1834; A glossary of the provincialisms in use in Sussex, privately printed 1836 which he published 1853; Seven letters by Sterne and his friends 1844; The history of Winchelsea 1850; edited several books for the Camden and Shakespeare Societies; author of many papers in Sussex Archæological Collections vols. ii, to xxvi. d. 81 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 28 Dec. 1875. Sussex Archæological Collections xxvii, 117–32 (1877).

COOPER, William Ricketts. b. 1843; a designer of carpet patterns; a London missionary; assistant curator of Sir John Soane’s museum, Lincoln Inn Fields; one of chief founders of Society of biblical archæology 1870, sec. 1870–6; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1875; author of Serpent myths of Ancient Egypt 1873; The resurrection of Assyria 1875; Heroines of the past 1875; Egypt and the Pentateuch 1875; An Archaic dictionary 1876; The Horus myth and Christianity 1877; A short history of the Egyptian obelisk 1877, 2 ed. 1878; Christian evidence lectures 1880; translated Lenormant’s Chaldean magic 1877. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 Nov. 1878.

COOPER, William White (youngest son of George Fort Cooper). b. Holt, Wiltshire 17 Nov. 1816; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1845; one of original staff of North London Eye Infirmary 1841; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851; surgeon oculist in ordinary to the Queen 4 March 1859 to death; it was announced that he was to be knighted 29 May 1886; author of Invalid’s guide to Madeira 1840; Practical remarks on near sight, aged sight and impaired vision 1847, 2 ed. 1853; Observations on conical cornea 1850; On wounds and injuries of the eye 1859; Zoological notes and anecdotes by Sestertius Holt 1852, pseud. of which a second ed. appeared under the title Traits and anecdotes of animals 1861. d. of acute pneumonia at 19 Berkeley sq. London 1 June 1886. Medical Circular iii, 383–85 (1853), portrait.

COOTE, Charles. b. Waltham abbey, Essex 1807; sang in English opera at Lyceum theatre; pianist to Duke of Devonshire 30 years, travelling with him abroad and at home; organised the quadrille band 1848 which has become celebrated in aristocratic circles; composed upwards of 150 pieces of music chiefly quadrilles, waltzes, galops, polkas and dances on airs from popular operas. d. 42 New Bond st. London 14 March 1879.

COOTE, Sir Charles Henry, 9 Baronet. b. 2 Jany. 1792; succeeded 2 March 1802; M.P. for Queen’s county 1821–47 and 1852–59; col. Queen’s co. militia 20 Nov. 1824 to death. d. 5 Connaught place, London 5 Oct. 1864.

COOTE, Elizabeth Phillis (granddau. of Charles Coote 1807–79). b. 19 Oct. 1862; acted in America 1870; sang at Canterbury and Pavilion music halls, London 1871–3; played Hop o’ my Thumb in pantomime at T.R. Brighton, Dec. 1873; played at Adelphi and Princess’s theatres 1877–8; made a great hit at Brighton in pantomime of Little Boy Blue, Dec. 1882. d. Ducie st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 18 Feb. 1886. Illust. sporting and dramatic news viii, 401, 422 (1878), portrait, xvi, 569, 574 (1882), portrait.

COOTE, Henry Charles (son of Charles Coote of London 1761–1835, member of college of advocates). b. 1814; admitted proctor in Doctors’ Commons 1840; practised in the Probate court; admitted solicitor 1857; F.S.A. 17 May 1860; a founder of the Folklore Society 1878; author of Practice of the ecclesiastical courts 1846; The common form practice of the Court of Probate 1858, 9 ed. 1883; Practice of the high court of Admiralty 1860, 2 ed. 1869; A neglected fact in English history 1864; The Romans in Britain 1878. d. 13 Westgate terrace, Redclyffe sq. West Brompton, London 4 Jany. 1885. Athenæum 17 Jany. 1885 p. 87, col. 3.

COOTE, Holmes (2 son of Richard Holmes Coote of London, conveyancer). b. London 10 Nov. 1817; ed. at Westminster; F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon St. Bartholomew’s 1852, surgeon 1863 to death; civil surgeon in charge of the wounded soldiers at Smyrna 1855; author of The Homologies of the human skeleton 1849; A report on some of the more important points in the treatment of Syphilis 1857; On diseases of the joints 1867. d. 22 Dec. 1872. Medical Circular iii, 31 (1853); St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports ix, pp. xxxix-xliii (1873).

COPE, Rev. Edward Meredith. b. Birmingham 28 July 1818; ed. at Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; fellow of Trin. coll. 1842 to death, and lecturer on Greek 1845–69; contested professorship of Greek at Cam. 1867; wrote a criticism of Grote’s Dissertation on the sophists in the Cambridge Journal of classical philology 1854–6; author of Review of Aristotle’s System of ethics, a prelection 1867; The Rhetoric of Aristotle with a commentary by the late E. M. Cope, revised and edited by J. E. Sandys 3 vols. 1877. d. 5 Aug. 1873. bur. Birmingham cemetery.

COPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Cope of Bridges place, Kent, chapter clerk to dean and chapter of Westminster abbey). b. 22 July 1768; practised as a solicitor to 1806; succeeded his elder brother 12 Dec. 1812; kept a pack of foxhounds to year of his death. d. Bramshill park, Hants. 18 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii, 184–5 (1852).

COPE, Rev. Richard. b. near Craven chapel, Regent st. London 23 Aug. 1776; kept a boarding school at Launceston 1800–20; Independent minister at Launceston 21 Oct. 1801 to 24 June 1820; minister of Salem chapel, Wakefield 1822–29, of Quebec chapel, Abergavenny 1829–36, of New st. chapel, Penryn, Cornwall 1836 to death; M.A. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1819; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1824; author of Adventures of a religious tract 1820 anon.; Robert Melville or characters contrasted 1827; Pulpit synopsis, outlines of sermons 1837; Entertaining anecdotes 1838; Pietas privata, family prayers 1857. d. Penryn 26 Oct. 1856. Autobiography and select remains of Richard Cope edited by his son R. J. Cope 1857.

COPE, Thomas, b. London 1793; apprenticed to Joseph Smith, printer; worked under W. Clowes of Northumberland court, Strand, printer 1818–22; started a newspaper at Southampton 1822; returned to Clowes’s; printer and publisher of The Representative 1826; managed John Wm. Parker’s printing office; publisher of The Times 1848–63. d. Salisbury st. Strand, London 13 March 1877.

COPE, Thomas. b. Liverpool; commenced with his brother George Cope the manufacture of cigars in Liverpool 1848 and the manufacture of tobacco 1860, employed about 1300 people at his works Lord Nelson st. Liverpool and was the first person in England to engage women in making cigars; founded with J. R. Jeffery and Robert Gladstone, Financial Reform Association 1848; speaker of Liverpool Parliamentary debating society; aided Hugh Shimmin in founding The Porcupine 1860; Cope’s Tobacco plant, a monthly periodical, price 1d. No. 1 issued 21 March 1870, was brought out by Cope Brothers & Co. for about 14 years. d. Parkside cottage, Huyton near Liverpool 18 Sep. 1884 in 57 year. Liverpool Daily Post 19 Sept. 1884 p. 5.

COPE, William (only son of Wm. Henry Cope of Holbeach, Staffs.) b. 20 Oct. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; district registrar of Court of Probate, Shrewsbury 1858 to death; recorder of Bridgnorth 10 March 1871 to death. d. Shawbury, Shropshire 8 Jany. 1885.

COPELAND, Thomas (son of Rev. Wm. Copeland 1747–87, C. of Byfield, Northamptonshire). b. May 1781; M.R.C.S. 6 July 1804, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon 1 foot guards 1804–9; surgeon to Westminster general dispensary; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1837; author of Observations on some of the principal diseases of the Rectum 1810, 3 ed. 1824; Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine 1815, 2 ed. 1818 which was translated into several European languages. d. Brighton 19 Nov. 1855, personalty sworn under £180,000. Medical Circular iii, 31 (1853); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv, (1840), portrait.

COPELAND, Rev. William John (son of Wm. Copeland of Chigwell, Essex, surgeon). b. Chigwell 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Ox., Pauline exhibitioner 1824, scholar, fellow 1830–49; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1840; C. of St. Olave, Jewry, London 1829, C. of Hackney 1829–32; R. of Farnham, Essex 1849 to death; rural dean of Newport 1849–81; edited Newman’s Parochial and plain sermons 8 vols. 1868; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Ephesians in vol. 5 of the Library of the Fathers. d. Farnham rectory 26 Aug. 1885, part of his library is now in the National Liberal Club, Whitehall place, London.

COPELAND, William Robert, b. Deal; apprenticed to a chemist; lessee and manager of T.R. Liverpool and proprietor of royal amphitheatre 1843; manager of Strand theatre, London which he called “Punch’s Playhouse,” May 1851 to May 1852. d. New Brighton, Cheshire 29 May 1867 aged 68. bur. Smithdown lane cemetery, Liverpool 8 June. Era 2 June 1867 p. 4, col. 4.

COPELAND, William Taylor (only son of Wm. Copeland of the Stoke potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826). b. 24 March 1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate 1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses and kept a stud. d. Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868. John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent 1843 pp. 64, 497–504, 582; Sporting Review lix, 309 (1868); Art Journal (1868) p. 158; I.L.N. xxxii, 561 (1858), portrait.

COPLAND, James, b. in the Orkneys, Nov. 1791; ed. at Lerwick and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; Medical officer of the African company on the Gold Coast 1817; practised in London 1820–69; edited The London medical repository 1822–27; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1820, fellow 3 July 1837, censor 1841, 1842 and 1861, Gulstonian lecturer 1838, Croonian lecturer 1844–46, Lumleian lecturer 1854–55, Harveian orator 1857, Consiliarius 1844, 1849–51, 1861–63; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; pres. of Pathological Soc; author of A dictionary of practical medicine 3 vols. 1858 brought out in parts Sep. 1832–1858; The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis 1861. d. Hertford house, Brondesbury road, Kilburn near London 12 July 1870. Physic and physicians ii, 285–89 (1839); T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i, 109 (1840), portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 410–20; Medical Circular iv, 299, 317 and 353 (1854).

COPLEY, Sir Joseph William, 4 Baronet, b. London 27 July 1804; succeeded 21 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1843. d. Sprotborough hall, Doncaster 4 Jany. 1883.

COPPOCK, James (eld. son of Wm. Coppock of Stockport, Cheshire, mercer). b. Stockport 2 Sep. 1798; partner in a silk firm in London; admitted attorney 1836; sec. to Liberal Registration Society with a residence in the Society’s rooms 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s 1835; treasurer of county courts, Aug. 1857 to death; sec. of the Reform Club, London, May to June 1836 when he was elected an hon. life member and appointed solicitor to the club; author of The electors’ manual 1835. d. 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London 19 Dec. 1857.

CORBALLIS, John Richard (2 son of Richard Corballis of Rosemount, Roebuck, co. Dublin). b. Dublin 1796; ed. at the Lay college of Maynooth and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1820; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns; comr. of charitable bequests for Ireland 18 Sep. 1845; law adviser to the Crown in Ireland 1853–58 and 1859–64; crown prosecutor on the Home circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Kilkenny to 1862. d. Rosemount 13 Feb. 1879 in 83 year.

CORBALLY, Matthew Elias. b. 1797; sheriff of Meath 1838; M.P. Meath 1840–41 and 1842 to death. d. Corbalton hall, Tara, co. Meath 25 Nov. 1870.

CORBAUX, Marie Françoise Catherine Doetter, usually called Fanny Corbaux (dau. of François Corbaux, F.R.S. who d. 1 May 1843 aged 74). b. 1812; studied at National Gallery and British Institution; gained gold medal of Society of Arts for a portrait in miniature 1830; hon. mem. of Society of British Artists 1830; mem. of New Soc. of Painters in Water colours; granted civil list pension of £30, 26 Sep. 1871; wrote in the Athenæum, Letters on the physical geography of the Exodus; wrote in the Journal of sacred literature a series of papers giving the history of a remarkable nation called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible; wrote an historical and chronological introduction to The Exodus Papyri by D. I. Heath 1855. d. Brighton 1 Feb. 1883. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 68–70.

CORBET, Sir Andrew Vincent, 2 Baronet. b. Shawbury park, Shropshire 15 June 1800; succeeded 5 June 1835; sheriff of Shropshire 1843. d. Brancepeth castle, Durham 13 Sep. 1855.

CORBETT, Panton (2 son of Ven. Joseph Plymley, archdeacon of Salop, who took surname of Corbett 1806 and d. 22 June 1838 aged 79). b. Bank house, Longnor, Salop, April 1785; barrister L.I. 21 June 1806; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1820–1830; high steward of borough of Welshpool; sheriff of Shropshire 1849; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions 1850 to June 1855. d. Longnor hall, Shropshire 22 Nov. 1855.

CORBETT, Sir Stuart (son of Ven. Stuart Corbett, archdeacon of York, who d. 25 Aug. 1845 aged 71). b. Tankersley, Yorkshire 1802; entered Bengal army 1814; lieut. col. 25 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1846 to 1854; colonel 16 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1856 to death, M.G. 4 Feb. 1859; commanded Benares division 6 July 1863 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 28 Jany. 1862. d. Nynee Tal, India 1 Aug. 1865.

CORBETT-WINDER, Uvedale (brother of the preceding). b. 15 Nov. 1792; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1815; comr. of bankruptcy in Wolverhampton district; recorder of Bridgnorth 1844–71; recorder of Wenlock to 1871; judge of county courts, circuit 27, Shropshire, March 1847 to Sep. 1865 when he resigned; assumed additional surname of Winder 2 June 1869. d. 36 Princes gardens, London 7 Feb. 1871.

CORCORAN, Michael, b. Carrowkeal, co. Sligo 21 Sep. 1827; emigrated to United States 1849, clerk in the post office there; colonel of 69 New York militia, Aug. 1859; taken prisoner at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861, released 15 Aug. 1862; brigadier general 21 July 1861; organised the Corcoran legion which took part in the battles of Nansemond river and Suffolk, April 1863 and held in check advance of the enemy upon Norfolk, the legion was attached to army of the Potomac, Aug. 1863. d. of injuries received by a fall from his horse near Fairfax courthouse, Virginia 22 Dec. 1863. The captivity of General Corcoran 1862; Bramhall’s Military souvenir (1863), memoir and portrait No. 45.

CORDER, Susanna. Author of Memorials of deceased members of the Society of Friends 1837, 6 ed. 1845; A brief outline of the origin, principles and church government of the Society of Friends 1841, translated into French 1845; Life of Elizabeth Fry 1853; Christian instruction in the history, types and prophecies of the Old Testament 1854, 2 ed. 1855; edited Memoir of Priscilla Gurney 1856. d. Chelmsford 28 Feb. 1864 aged 76.

CORDNER, William John. b. Dungannon, co. Tyrone 1826; teacher of music at Armagh; the best tenor singer in north of Ireland; organist of St. Patrick’s church, Sydney 1854–56, of St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 1856 to death. d. Sydney 15 July 1870.

CORFE, Arthur Thomas (3 son of Joseph Corfe 1740–1820, organist of Salisbury cathedral). b. Salisbury 9 April 1773; a chorister of Westminster abbey 1783; organist of Salisbury cathedral 1804 to death; organised and undertook a musical festival at Salisbury 19 to 22 Aug. 1828; wrote a service, a few anthems and some pianoforte pieces; author of A collection of anthems used in cathedral church, Canterbury 1830. Found dead at his bedside in his house The Close, Salisbury 28 Jany. 1863. F. Lear’s Sermon on death of Archdeacon Drury and A. T. Corfe 1863.

CORFE, Charles William (son of the preceding). b. 13 July 1814; organist of Ch. Ch. cath. Ox. 1846–81; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1847; choragus of univ. of Ox. 1860 to death. d. 14 Beaumont st. Oxford 16 Dec. 1883. bur. Ch. Ch. cathedral 19 Dec.

CORFE, John Davis (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; organist of Bristol cathedral more than 50 years; conductor for many years of the Bristol Madrigal Society one of the most famous choirs in England. d. of heart disease at 31 Richmond terrace, Clifton 16 Jany. 1876.

CORFIELD, Frederick Brooke. Ensign 28 Bengal N.I. 3 April 1820; lieut.-col. of 20 Bengal N.I. 3 Sep. 1849, of 49 B.N.I. 1852, of 17 B.N.I. 1853, of 55 B.N.I. 1854, of 2 B.N.I. 1855, of 6 B.N.I. 1857, of 5 B.N.I. 1858; col. 5 European infantry 26 April 1859 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Knowle house, Upper Norwood 2 Sep. 1884 aged 81. I.L.N. lxxxv, 292 (1884), portrait.

CORFIELD, William Robert. Ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1821; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. 128 Lexham gardens, London 30 Nov. 1882. Graphic xxvii, 225 (1883), portrait.

CORK and ORRERY, Edmund Boyle, 8 Earl of (2 son of 7 Earl of Cork and Orrery 1742–98). b. 21 Oct. 1767; ensign 22 foot 13 April 1785; lieut. col. 87 foot 29 March 1794 to 7 Jany. 1795; lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1795 to 17 May 1796; captain Coldstream Guards 17 May 1796 to 17 Sep. 1802, commanded first battalion in Egypt 1801; succeeded his father Oct. 1798; col. of 16 battalion of Reserve 9 July 1803 to 1804; general 27 May 1825; K.P. 22 July 1835. d. 3 Hamilton place, London 29 June 1856.

CORKRAN, John Frazer. b. Dublin; a dramatic writer in Dublin; wrote many articles in Dublin Univ. Mag.; Paris correspondent of Morning Herald and Evening Standard about 1836; author of History of the national constituent assembly 2 vols. 1849; An hour ago, or time in dreamland, a mystery 1858; East and West, or once upon a time 3 vols. 1861; Bertha’s Repentance 1863. d. 9 Clairville grove, Old Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1884.

CORMACK, Sir John Rose (only son of Rev. John Cormack, minister of Stoke near Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1815; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1841; phys. to Royal infirmary, Edin.; edited Edinburgh Monthly Journal 1841–46; F.R.S. Edin.; M.D. Paris 1870; surgeon to Ambulance Anglaise during both the sieges of Paris 1870–71; chevalier of Legion of honour 1871; F.R.C.P. London 1872; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872; author of Treatise on the properties of Creosote 1836; Pathology of fever in Edinburgh 1844; Clinical studies illustrated by cases 2 vols. 1876. d. 364 Rue st. Honoré, Paris 13 May 1882. Medical Circular iii, 109–110 (1853).