[2][3] Coppinger played club cricket for sides such as New Cross and Woolwich and made his only first-class appearance for Kent against Surrey at The Oval in 1870, scoring 13 runs in his two innings.
He married Jane Hutchinson in 1874; the couple had one daughter who died as an infant.
Coppinger himself died at New Cross in 1877 of rheumatic fever and acute meningitis aged 26.
[2] Two of his brothers, Edward and William, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.
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