[2][3] Coppinger played club cricket for sides in Essex and Metropolitan Kent, including as a wicket-keeper for Blackheath against the touring Australian Aboriginal side in 1868.
[4] He played twice for Kent in first-class cricket, both matches coming in August 1873.
He later set up business as a spirit merchant and distiller at Kingston-upon-Thames.
He became a local councillor and Justice of the Peace and served as mayor of Kingston in 1890/91.
[3][4] Two of his brothers, Charles and William, and an uncle Septimus all played first-class cricket.