Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross (1892–1955), Scottish politician, judge and historian
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He was a Director of the Harvard University Press and served as editor of the original Dictionary of American Biography. His first contribution to historical scholarship was a still authoritative biography of the American political commentator and educator Thomas Cooper (Yale University Press, 1926).
Further background about his life was published in Recollections of Seventy Years (1888) by the African-American Methodist minister Daniel Alexander Payne D.D. LL.D; and by his brother-in-law, the Chartist radical and writer Thomas Cooper in his autobiography (dedicated to Frederick Jobson), published in 1857.
The appeal was heard by the Lord President (Lord Cooper of Culross), Lord Carmont, and Lord Russell.
There was a Large manor House called Ockfordwood house which was built in the 1870s by Thomas Cooper.
Along with Thomas Cooper, he is said to have forcibly recruited British and Dominion POWs for the British Free Corps.
Thomas Cooper de Leon is named for the good friend of his father, the outspoken Thomas Cooper, president of the University of South Carolina.
Cooper was the son of John Cooper, of Edinburgh, a civil engineer, and Margaret, daughter of John Mackay, of Dunnet, Caithness.