Cecil Cooper (priest)

Cecil Henry Hamilton Cooper (25 October 1871[1] – 6 January 1942) was Dean of Carlisle[2] from 1933 to 1938.

Born into an ecclesiastical family in Beyton, Suffolk,[3] Cooper was the son of Henry William Cooper, sometime Vicar of West Norwood.

[4] he was educated at Pocklington School and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1895.

After curacies at St Mary's Alverstoke[5] and St Faith with St Cross Hospital, Winchester he held incumbencies in Winchester and Scarborough[6] before being appointed Archdeacon of York in 1923.

A decade later he was elevated to the Deanery,[7] retiring in 1938.