| Authorised form of name | Key; Sir; Astley Cooper (1821 - 1888) |
| Dates | 1821 - 1888 |
| Date of birth | 18 January 1821 |
| Place of death | Maidenhead, Berkshire |
| Date of death | 03 March 1888 |
| Activity | Career:
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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1868 |
| Relationships | Son of Charles Aston Key, Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, London, and his wife Anne Cooper, niece of Sir Astley Cooper (FRS 1802); married twice |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1887-1888 vol 43 pp ix-xi signed by G H R |
| Code | NA5996 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/7/333 | Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives - Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel | 30 July 1874 |
| RR/8/177 | Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives. No. II.—Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel | 14 October 1879 |
| EC/1868/15 | Key, Sir Astley Cooper: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |