Researching Cecil Cooper
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The name Cecil means "Blind" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Cecil Cooper on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Cecil Cooper and the Cooper Family History
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Cooper Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Cecil Cooper
Cecil Cooper (bishop)
Alfred Cecil Cooper was the fourth Anglican Bishop in Korea from 1931 until 1954. Born in 1882 and educated at Bradfield College and Christ's College, Cambridge, he was ordained priest on Trinity Sunday (26 May), by Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham, at Durham Cathedral. After a curacy at St Oswald's, West Hartlepool he spent the rest of his active ministry in Korea. He was consecrated a bishop on St Barnabas' Day 1931 (11 June), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. "Bishop in Corea" during a turbulent period in the country's history, the most dramatic event of his episcopate was the forced march to the very top of the country during the Korean war. During his capture, 1951–1953, his assistant bishop, Arthur Chadwell, was acting bishop diocesan. Retiring in 1954, he died a decade later on 17 December 1964.
Source: Cecil Cooper (bishop), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Cecil Cooper (priest)
Cecil Henry Hamilton Cooper (25 October 1871 – 6 January 1942) was Dean of Carlisle from 1933 to 1938.
Born into an ecclesiastical family in Beyton, Suffolk, Cooper was the son of Henry William Cooper, sometime Vicar of West Norwood. he was educated at Pocklington School and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1895. After curacies at St Mary's Alverstoke and St Faith with St Cross Hospital, Winchester he held incumbencies in Winchester and Scarborough before being appointed Archdeacon of York in 1923. A decade later he was elevated to the Deanery, retiring in 1938. He died on 6 January 1942.
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