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Athenae Cantabrigienses

Athenae Cantabrigienses

Athenae Cantabrigienses

Volume 2: 1586–1609
Charles Henry Cooper
T. Cooper
July 2009
2. 1586–1609
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9781108000376
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    The Athenae Cantabrigienses was the most ambitious of several large writing projects undertaken by Charles Henry Cooper, a keen historian, successful lawyer and town clerk of Cambridge in the mid-nineteenth century. He enlisted the help of his elder son, Thompson Cooper, for this book, a collection of carefully researched biographies of distinguished figures with Cambridge connections, inspired by Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (1692). Two volumes were published during Cooper Senior's lifetime, but only 60 pages of the third volume (ending in 1611) appeared in print, and he died leaving an enormous quantity of notes. Even in its incomplete state, the work contains about seven thousand biographies; their subjects include clergymen, military commanders, judges, artists, scholars and benefactors of the University. Volume 2, originally published in 1861, covers the period 1586–1609.

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    July 2009
    Paperback
    9781108000376
    584 pages
    216 × 33 × 140 mm
    0.73kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Athenae Cantabrigienses
    • Additions and corrections
    • House lists
    • Index.
      Editors
    • Charles Henry Cooper
    • T. Cooper