Thomas Cooper, Chartist and Writer, Lincoln

Thomas Cooper (1805–1892) by John Cochran.

Thomas Cooper was born in Leicester and died in Lincoln. Above are images from the Thomas Cooper Baptist Church, High Street, Lincoln, whose webpage on Cooper is headed:

'"Persecuted, but not abandoned" (2 Corinthians 4:9)"

Paul Halfyard begins the page with these enthusiastic words:

'Our church is named after one for whom the above text is certainly true: Thomas Cooper – shoemaker, journalist, prisoner, author, agnostic, evangelist, lecturer and champion of the poor and oppressed!'

He continues his brief biography here.

Cooper was buried in Canwick Cemetery just outside the city of Lincoln, the inscription on his grave reading:

'IN MEMORY OF

SUSANNA

THE BELOVED WIFE OF

THOMAS COOPER

(AUTHOR OF THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES

AND LECTURER IN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIANITY)

SHE WAS BORN 7 APRIL 1801

AND DIED 1 FEBY. 1880

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ALSO IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER

LETITIA

THE WIFE OF WM. SWANN

SHE WAS BORN 21 JUNE 1804

AND DIED 19 AUGUST 1879

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ALSO OF THE ABOVE

THOMAS COOPER

WHO DIED 15 JULY 1892

AGED 87 YEARS.'

My thanks to Darron Childs, whose email attachment of the grave greatly aided my finding it.

Below is a link to a great deal of information on Thomas Cooper, including a number of his writings.

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Thomas Cooper and His Works