Reference Works
With his father Charles Henry Cooper he compiled Athenae Cantabrigienses, a biographical work covering alumni of the University of Cambridge.
The Register and Magazine of Biography (1869) was a short-lived periodical venture for John Gough Nichols, covering contemporary biography only, and lasting six months. A New Biographical Dictionary appeared in 1873, and was subsequently developed under various titles.
Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits was a series of photographic portraits, accompanied by short biographies from Cooper. It was published from 1876 to 1883.
Cooper therefore brought considerable experience to the DNB when it launched in the 1880s. He played a general editorial role as "compiler of the lists of names to be treated under B and future letters", but his speciality as a contributor was "Roman Catholic divines and writers". He was also a prolific contributor to the Catholic Encyclopaedia.
He was buried in Norwood Cemetery.
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