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unusual facts about Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross


Baron Cooper

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross (1892–1955), Scottish politician, judge and historian


Dumas Malone

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).

Frederick James Jobson

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.

MacCormick v Lord Advocate

The appeal was heard by the Lord President (Lord Cooper of Culross), Lord Carmont, and Lord Russell.

Ockford Ridge

There was a Large manor House called Ockfordwood house which was built in the 1870s by Thomas Cooper.

Roy Courlander

Along with Thomas Cooper, he is said to have forcibly recruited British and Dominion POWs for the British Free Corps.

Thomas Cooper de Leon

Thomas Cooper de Leon is named for the good friend of his father, the outspoken Thomas Cooper, president of the University of South Carolina.

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

Cooper was the son of John Cooper, of Edinburgh, a civil engineer, and Margaret, daughter of John Mackay, of Dunnet, Caithness.


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