Edward Synge Cooper (5 March 1762 – 16 August 1830)[1] was an Irish landowner and politician from County Sligo.
He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1830. Cooper was the second son of Joshua Cooper MP (1732–1800) of Markree Castle, and his wife Alicia, daughter of Edward Synge, Bishop of Elphin.
[2] At the 1806 general election he was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for County Sligo,[2] succeeding his older brother Joshua Edward Cooper, who was deranged.
[2] In his second Parliament, he claimed credit for having helped secure the passage of the Highways (Ireland) Act 1809, which reformed the role of grand juries, and from 1810 onwards he opposed Catholic relief.
[2] He died on 16 August 1830, shortly after standing down from Parliament at the 1830 general election.