Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Thomas Cooper was an English poet and a leading Chartist. His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts. He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840. He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.
Furnivall Sculling Club is a rowing club based on the Tideway in Hammersmith, London. It was founded as Hammersmith Sculling Club in 1896 by Dr Frederick James Furnivall, after whom riverside gardens, Furnivall Gardens, in Hammersmith are named. For its initial five years, in the reign of Queen Victoria, the club was for women only and hosted the world's first female rowing team. Furnivall extended membership to men in 1901. The club colours are a precise pallette: myrtle and old gold.
Sir Thomas Goodrich was an English ecclesiastic and statesman who was Bishop of Ely from 1534 until his death.
John Richardson was a Biblical scholar and a Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1615 until his death.
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist.
Seymour Burr (1754/1762–1837) was an African-American slave in the Connecticut Colony in the North American British Colonies and United States. Owned by the brother of Colonel Aaron Burr, who was also named Seymour, he was known only as Seymour until he escaped and used the surname Burr to enlist in the British Army in the early days of the American Revolution. The British promised the personal freedom of any African-American slave who enlisted or escaped to fight against the Continental Army, and Burr wanted more than anything to be free. However, he was quickly captured and forcibly returned to his owner.
St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate is a Church of England church in the Bishopsgate Without area of the City of London, and also, by virtue of lying outside the city's eastern walls, part of London's East End.
Markree Castle is a castle located in Collooney, County Sligo, Ireland. It is the ancestral seat of the Cooper family, partially moated by the River Unshin. Today it is a small family-run hotel.
The Rt. Rev. Edmund Courtenay Pearce was the inaugural Bishop of Derby from 1927 until his death in 1935. His brother Ernest was the Bishop of Worcester from 1919 to 1930.
Walter Henry Cooper was Mayor of Christchurch in 1895, and again in 1897. Born in Somerset, he came to New Zealand early in his life via Australia. A butcher by trade, he later worked in trade and export. He was for many years a member of Christchurch City Council. After his wife died, he lived with his daughter in Victoria, Australia.
Besse Berry Cooper was an American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from June 21, 2011, until her death. She was the seventh person verified to have reached the age of 116.
Sir Adam Browne, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1661 and 1689. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.
John Copcot, DD was an English cleric and academic, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Edith Lucy Austin Greville was an English tennis player who was active from the 1890s until around 1920. She was married to fellow player George Greville.
Francis (Frank) Augustus Bevan was a British heir and banker. He served as the chairman of Barclays Bank, a British multi-national financial institution, serving from 1896 to 1916.
Anthony Hamilton was Archdeacon of Taunton from 5 December 1827 until his death.
Thomas Constable was Archdeacon of the East Riding from 11 December 1784 until his death.
George Bramston was a lawyer and academic in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.