Alfred Cooper (priest)

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Alfred William Francis Cooper (died 14 November 1920) was Archdeacon of Calgary from 1895 [1] to 1898. [2]

The son of Jonathan Sisson Cooper, [3] Cooper was educated at Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1874. He held curacies in Stradbally, Tipperary and Booterstown before becoming Rector of Glenealy. He was with the SPG in Canada [4] before his time as Archdeacon and the incumbent at Killanne afterwards. [5]

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References

  1. The Church of Ireland Belfast News-Letter (Belfast, Ireland), Monday, 2 September 1895; Issue 25003
  2. Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who. A. & C. Black. 1962. p. 224.
  3. Browne, Bernard (January 1997). Living by the Pen: a biographical dictionary of County Wexford authors. B. Browne. p. 26.
  4. "Chinese Canadian". Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory , 1908 p 303: London, Horace Cox, 1908