| Authorised form of name | Cooper; Charles Purton (1793 - 1873) |
| Dates | 1793 - 1873 |
| Date of birth | 1793 |
| Place of death | Boulogne, France |
| Date of death | 26 March 1873 |
| Activity | Education:
BA, MA (1817) Wadham College, Oxford; LLD (Louvain)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1816); QC (1837); Secretary of the second Record Commission; Queen's Serjeant of the Duchy of Lancaster; Bencher of Lincoln's Inn (1836), Treasurer (1855), Master of the library (1856)
Freemason, joined, 1852, United Industrious Lodge No 34, subsequently No 31 Canterbury
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/12/1832 |
| Published works | 'An Account of the Public Records of the United Kingdom' , 2 volumes, 1832 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
The Library and Museumm of Freemasonry 'Freemasons and the Royal Society;Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' 2010, page 24 |
| Royal Society code | NA2511 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1832/31 | Cooper, Charles Purton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/30/24 | Letter from D Biddle, Wortley, Manorgate Road, Kingston Hill, Surrey, to The Registrar of the Royal Society | 7 November 1915 |
| NLB/52/319 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to D. Biddle Esquire., M.R.C.S. Wortley; Manorgate Road, Kingston Hill, Surrey | 9 November 1915 |