Colonel Joshua Edward Cooper (c. 1761 – 8 June 1837)[1] was an Irish landowner and politician from County Sligo.
[4] He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1790 to 1800, as one of the two Members of Parliament for County Sligo.
After the Act of Union in 1800, he sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1806 as MP for County Sligo.
[5] He appears to have participated little in the proceedings of the Westminster Parliament, and stood down at the general election 1806, by which time he was deranged.
[4] His younger brother Edward Synge Cooper took over the running of the family estates, and was returned in his place as MP for County Sligo.