Cecil Cooper (priest)

The Very Rev Cecil Henry Hamilton Cooper (25 October 1871[1] – 6 January 1942) was Dean of Carlisle[2] from 1933 to 1938.

Born into an ecclesiastical family in Beyton, Suffolk,[3] Cooper was the son of the Rev. Henry William Cooper, sometime Vicar of West Norwood.[4] he was educated at Pocklington School and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1895. After curacies at St Mary's Alverstoke[5] and St Faith with St Cross Hospital, Winchester he held incumbencies in Winchester and Scarborough[6] before being appointed Archdeacon of York in 1923. A decade later he was elevated to the Deanery,[7] retiring in 1938. He died on 6 January 1942.[8]

References

1. The Official Year-book of the National Assembly of the Church of England. Church of England National Assembly [and] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1933. p. 71. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
2. Deans of Carlisle
3. 1911 England Census
4. Who was Who 1897–1990. London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
6. Vicars of Scarborough
7. New Dean Of Carlisle Archdeacon Of York Appointed The Times Wednesday, 15 February 1933; p. 12; Issue 46369; col D
8. The Times, Thursday, 8 January 1942; p. 1; Issue 49128; col A Deaths

Church of England titles
Preceded by Henry Venn Stuart	Dean of Carlisle 1933 – 1938	Succeeded by Frederick William Matheson