Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (11 August 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a British politician and a member of the Cooper Baronets, of Shenstone Court.
Biography[]
Cooper was educated at Clifton College,[1] and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1913. He was Chairman of the chemical manufacturing firm Cooper, McDougall & Robertson.
He served in the Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment), where he was appointed a lieutenant 26 March 1902.[2]
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall in January 1910 general election, a seat he would hold until 1922. He founded the National Party with Sir Henry Page Croft in 1917 but stood at the 1918 election as an Independent Conservative. He was prominent, along with Croft, in the campaign against the Prime Minister David Lloyd George in July 1922 for selling honours.
Between 1896 and 1911, Cooper resided at Ashlyns Hall in Berkhamsted, leased from the Smith-Dorrien family.[3][4]
Cooper died in 1946 and is interred in the family vault in Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted.
Family[]
Cooper married Alice Priestland in 1900.
References[]
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- Catalogue of Cooper's papers at LSE Archives.
- Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour. 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
- ↑ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 4160: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ↑ "No. 27419". 25 March 1902. p. 2081. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27419/page/2081
- ↑ "Berkhampstead St Peter: Introduction, honour, manor and castle" (in en). A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2. London: Victoria County History. 1908. pp. 162–171. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp162-171#h3-0005. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ↑ "Heritage Statement Former Ashlyn’s Farm Site, Chesham Road, Berkhamsted — 3. Historic Development". Turley Heritage. pp. 5–6. https://www.lpoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Heritage-Statement-for-large-development-in-setting-of-listed-buildings.pdf. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Richard Cooper
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