Edward Synge Cooper
Edward Synge Cooper(5 March 1762 – 16 August 1830)[1]was an Irish landowner and politician fromCounty Sligo.He sat in theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdomfrom 1806 to 1830.
Cooper was the second son ofJoshua CooperMP (1732–1800) ofMarkree Castle,and his wife Alicia, daughter ofEdward Synge,Bishop of Elphin. He was educated by Rev. Richard Norris in Drogheda, and then atTrinity College Dublin.In 1801 he married Anne Verelst, daughter of Bengal GovernorHarry VerelstofAston Hall, Yorkshire.They had three sons.[2]
At the1806 general electionhe was elected as one of the twoMembers of Parliament(MPs) forCounty Sligo,[2] succeeding his older brotherJoshua Edward Cooper,who was deranged.[3]He also took over the management of the family estate.[2]
In his first Parliament, he was a regular attender but took little active role, preferring "to look about me".[2]In his second Parliament, he claimed credit for having helped secure the passage of theHighways (Ireland) Act 1809,which reformed the role ofgrand juries,and from 1810 onwards he opposedCatholic relief.[2]
He died on 16 August 1830, shortly after standing down from Parliament at the1830 general election.[2] His sonEdward Joshua Cooper,who had been elected in his place in 1830, inherited Markree in 1837 on the death ofJoshua Edward Cooper.[4]
His second wife Anne survived her husband and all three of her sons. She died in November 1864, in Dunboden.County Westmeath,aged 92. Her oldest son Edward Joshua had died a year before her in 1863, her second son Joshua Henry died in infancy, and her youngest son Richard died in 1850.[5]
References[edit]
- ^Leigh Rayment's historicalList of Members of the Irish House of Commons.Cites:Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002).The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes).Ulster Historical Foundation.
- ^abcdefAspinall, Arthur (1986). R. Thorne (ed.)."COOPER, Edward Synge (1762-1830), of Markree Castle, co. Sligo and Boden Park, co. Westmeath".The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820.Boydell and Brewer.Retrieved12 July2014.
- ^Aspinall, Arthur (1986). R. Thorne (ed.)."COOPER, Joshua Edward (?1761-1837), of Markree Castle, co. Sligo".The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820.Boydell and Brewer.Retrieved12 July2014.
- ^Salmon, Philip (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.)."COOPER, Edward Joshua (1798-1863), of Markree Castle, co. Sligo and Boden Park, co. Westmeath".The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832.Cambridge University Press.Retrieved12 July2014.
- ^"The late Mrs. Cooper, of Dunbodben".Dublin Evening Mail.viaBritish Newspaper Archive.26 November 1864. p. 3.Retrieved15 July2014.
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