Grey Cooper

Grey Cooper (c. 1726 – 30 July 1801) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1765 and 1790 and was Secretary to the Treasury under various administrations.

Life edit

Cooper was the son of William Cooper MD of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was scholar in 1745 and was awarded BA in 1747 and MA in 1750. He was admitted at Inner Temple on 17 July 1747 and was called to the bar. He became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1749.^[1]

Worlington Hall - now a hotel

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester from 1765 to 1768. He was an MP for Grampound, Cornwall from 1768 to 1774. He was an MP for Saltash from 1774 to 1784 and MP for Richmond, Yorkshire from 1786 to 1790. For much of his career he was Secretary of the Treasury under various administrations.^[2]

Wall monument to Grey Cooper in All Saints Church, Worlington

He claimed to have inherited the baronetcy of Cooper of Gogan from 1775 on, thus calling himself Sir Grey Cooper, Bart.; whether that baronetcy ever existed and whether Cooper was heir to it are doubtful.^[3] In 1799 he acquired the manor of Worlington, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and lived at Worlington Hall, the 16th century manor house.

Grey died suddenly in 1801 at his home and was buried at All Saints Church, Worlington.^[4] He had married twice; firstly in 1753 Margaret, the daughter of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Baronet, of Howick, Northumberland and secondly, in 1762, Elizabeth Kennedy of Newcastle upon Tyne, with whom he had 2 sons and 2 daughters.^[2] He was succeeded to his "title" and estate by his son, Sir Frederic Grey-Cooper, Bt.

References edit

^ "Cooper, Grey (CPR743G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ ^a ^b "COOPER, Grey (c.1726-1801), of Worlington, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
^ Rubenhold, Hallie. "Cooper, Grey (c.1726–1801)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6219. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 90

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Admiral Sir Charles Hardy Admiral Isaac Townsend	Member of Parliament for Rochester 1765–1768 With: Admiral Sir Charles Hardy	Succeeded by John Calcraft William Gordon
Preceded by Merrick Burrell Simon Fanshawe	Member of Parliament for Grampound 1768–1774 With: Charles Wolfran Cornwall	Succeeded by Sir Joseph Yorke Richard Neville
Preceded by Martin Hawke Thomas Bradshaw	Member of Parliament for Saltash 1774–1784 With: Thomas Bradshaw to 1775 Sir Charles Whitworth 1775–1778 Henry Strachey 1778–1780 Paul Wentworth 1780 Charles Jenkinson from 1780	Succeeded by Charles Ambler Charles Jenkinson
Preceded by Charles Dundas Earl of Inchiquin	Member of Parliament for Richmond 1786–1790 With: Earl of Inchiquin	Succeeded by Lawrence Dundas Earl of Inchiquin

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[Venn-1] "Cooper, Grey (CPR743G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[HOP-2] "COOPER, Grey (c.1726-1801), of Worlington, Suff". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.

[3] Rubenhold, Hallie. "Cooper, Grey (c.1726–1801)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6219. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[4] The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 90

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