Cooper Baronets
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The Cooper Baronetcy of Pawlett in the County of Somerset was created in the Baronetage of England on 4 July 1622 for Sir John Cooper of Rockbourne. After his death, the title was inherited by his son, Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. For more information on this creation, see the Earl of Shaftesbury
Earl of Shaftesbury
Earl of Shaftesbury is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1672 for Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley, a prominent politician in the Cabal then dominating the policies of King Charles II...
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The Cooper Baronetcy of Dublin was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 3 October 1758 for William Cooper. The title became extinct on his death in 1761.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 August 1821. For more information on this creation, see Astley-Cooper Baronets
Astley-Cooper Baronets
The Cooper, later Paston-Cooper, later Astley-Cooper Baronetcy, of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...
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The Cooper Baronetcy of Walcott in the County of Somerset was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 19 February 1828 for John Cooper, Member of Parliament
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for Darmouth
Dartmouth (UK Parliament constituency)
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from 1825 to 1828. The title became extinct on his death in December 1828.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Woollahra in New South Wales was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 January 1863 for the Australia
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n politician Daniel Cooper.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Hursley in the County of Southampton was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 July 1905 for George Alexander Cooper. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1961.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Shenstone Court in Shenstone in the County of Stafford was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 20 December 1905, for the agriculturalist Richard Powell Cooper
Sir Richard Cooper,1st Baronet
Sir Richard Powell Cooper was a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and head of an agricultural chemical manufacturing company....
who was High Sheriff of Staffordshire
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in 1901. His son, the second Baronet, represented Walsall
Walsall (UK Parliament constituency)
Walsall was a borough constituency centred on the town of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system....
in the House of Commons
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The Cooper Baronetcy of Berrydown Court in the County of Southampton was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 19 October 1920, for Edward Ernest Cooper. The title became extinct on his death in 1922.
The Cooper Baronetcy of Singleton in the County of Sussex was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1941, for the industrialist D'Arcy Cooper. The title became extinct on his death in December of the same year.
Cooper Baronets of Woollahra (1863)
- Sir Daniel Cooper, 1st Baronet (1821-1902)
- Sir Daniel Cooper, 2nd Baronet (1848-1909)
- Sir William Charles Cooper, 3rd Baronet (1851-1925)
- Sir William George Daniel Cooper, 4th Baronet (1877-1954)
- Sir Charles Eric Daniel Cooper, 5th Baronet (1906-1984)
- Sir William Daniel Charles Cooper, 6th Baronet (b. 1955)
Cooper Baronets of Hursley (1905)
- Sir George Alexander Cooper, 1st Baronet (1856-1940)
- Sir George James Robertson Cooper, 2nd Baronet (1890-1961)
Cooper Baronets of Shenstone Court (1905)
- Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 1st Baronet (1847-1913)
- Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (1874-1946)
- Sir William Herbert Cooper, 3rd Baronet (1901-1970)
- Sir Francis Ashmole Cooper, 4th Baronet (1905-1987)
- Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 5th Baronet (1934-2006)
- Sir Richard Adrian Cooper, 6th Baronet (b. 1960)
Cooper Baronets of Singleton (1941)
- Sir (Francis) D'Arcy Cooper, 1st Baronet (1882-1941)