5th Baronet
Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 5th Baronet (13 April 1934 - 5 March 2006) was educated at Marlborough College and was killed in a car accident on 5 March 2006.
Sir Richard Cooper married Angela Wilson in 1957 (she died 18 July 2004). A keen agriculturist Cooper began his farming career running a family farm at Northchurch in Hertfordshire, before purchasing the Rowler Manor Estate in Northamptonshire. Later after his succession to the baronetcy he and his wife moved to Beaminster in Dorset. Cooper - a member of the Carlton Club - was Chairman of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust and an agricultural advisor to the Governments of Kazakhstan and Albania.
Cooper and his wife, who prededeceased him, had three children - Jane, Belinda and Richard. The latter, who was always known as Adrian, succeeded him to the baronetcy.
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