Cecil Cooper (priest)

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

Born into an ecclesiastical family in 1871,^[2] he was educated at Pocklington School and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1895. After curacies at St Mary’s Alverstoke^[3] and St Faith with St Cross Hospital, Winchester he held incumbencies in Winchester and Scarborough^[4] before being appointed Archdeacon of York in 1923. A decade later he was elevated to the Deanery,^[5] retiring in 1938. He died on 6 January 1942.^[6]

Notes

1. Deans of Carlisle
2. His father was the Rev. H. W. Cooper sometime Vicar of West Norwood “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
4. Vicars of Scarborough
5. New Dean Of Carlisle Archdeacon Of York Appointed The Times Wednesday, 15 February 1933; p. 12; Issue 46369; col D
6. The Times, Thursday, 8 January 1942; p. 1; Issue 49128; col A Deaths