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Authorised form of nameKey; Sir; Astley Cooper (1821 - 1888)
Dates1821 - 1888
Date of birth18 January 1821
Place of deathMaidenhead, Berkshire
Date of death03 March 1888
ActivityCareer:
Entered the Royal Navy (1833); Lieutenant (1842); Commander (1845); Rear Admiral (1866); Director General, Department of Naval Ordnance (1866-1869); President, Royal Naval College (1873); Vice Admiral (1873); Admiral (1878); First Lord of the Admiralty (1879); Privy Councillor (1884)
Honours:
CB 1855; KCB 1873; GCB 1882
Memberships:
FRGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1868
RelationshipsSon of Charles Aston Key, Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, London, and his wife Anne Cooper, niece of Sir Astley Cooper (FRS 1802); married twice
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1887-1888 vol 43 pp ix-xi signed by G H R
CodeNA5996
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/7/333Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives - Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel30 July 1874
RR/8/177Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives. No. II.—Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel14 October 1879
EC/1868/15Key, Sir Astley Cooper: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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