Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross OBE, PC, FRSE (24 September 1892 – 15 July 1956) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician, a judge and a historian, who had been appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland.

Cooper was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1915 and created a King's Counsel in 1927.

[13][2] He resigned in 1954 and was made a peer as Baron Cooper of Culross, of Dunnet in the County of Caithness.

[15] Lord Cooper of Culross died in July 1956, aged 62, at which point the barony became extinct.

[2] He is buried with his parents near the centre of the SW section of the original Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.