Cooper of 15 Clements Lane proposed Society for Constitutional Information 20.6.1788 by Joseph Towers 2nded John Lodge Batley
Benjamin Cooper born 16.8.1749 at Thames St, StMichael Crooked lane, London, son of John Cooper & his wife Ann, dau of Jeremiah & Elizabeth Hewett / Benjamin Cooper bach of St Clement Eastcheap = St Dunstan i t West 23.2.1773 Elizabeth Price sp otp (dau of Rice Price and his wife Sarah) by lic wits Rice Price, John Cooper / Dr Williams' Library - Ann born 8.9.1775 20 Greatt Eastcheap of Benjamin & Elizabeth Cooper / Benjamin born 11.8.1778 Sarah born 17.6.1780 Elizabeth born 9.1.1782 Church Court, Clements Lane Georgiana born 17.11.1784 New George St Blackfriars Rd Ch Ch Surrey, all of Benjamin (builder &c) & Elizabeth Cooper / Bailey's 1784 Benj Cooper surveyor & undertaker Church Court, Clements Lane / took appr 1784 William Davis (probably DNB 1771/2-1807 - see Bedfordshire & Luton Archives R1/86-101 maps of Duke of Bedford's estate surveyed 1795 by William Davis jr, from Benjamin Cooper's map of 1783) / Morning Post 6.8.1785 & Daily Advertiser 21.9.1785 ads B Cooper surveyor & builder Clements Lane & Blackfryars Rd / SunFire 1789 Benjamin Cooper carpenter Church Court, Clements Lane / Holden's directory 1790 B Cooper surveyor 14 Clements Lane / Society for Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce B Cooper, Clements Lane 1790-1792, Earl St Blackfriars 1793-1800 / Morning Herald 15.6.1792 Clements Lane / World 6.8.1792 Morning Herald 10.12.1792 Benjamin Cooper surveyor to the Phoenix Fire Office gave evidence at Kings Bench 7.12.1792 / Morning Post 25.1.1793 / his father's will PCC 1796 John Cooper of Great Eastcheap mentioned former partnership with his son Benjamin, his late wife, his dau Ann wife of William Spencer and his sons John & William / Holdens 1805 Benjamin Cooper surveyor 4 Earl St, Blackfriars / Holdens 1811 & Post Office directory 1819 Benjamin Cooper surveyor 2 Breams Buildings, Chancery Lane / Morning Chronicle 4.1.1811 B Cooper Royal Exchange Assurance Office / in 1787 Benjamin Cooper's wife ran off with George Cumberland (DNB 1754-1848), the baptism of their son George at St Gregory by St Paul, London said he was born in Rome to Cumberland and Elizabeth Cooper of Lyndhurst, Hants. In the 1851 and 1861 censuses George Cumberland junior and his sister Eliza M Cumberland were living with their unmarried stepsisters Elizabeth & Georgiana Cooper at Westbury, Bristol / the only burial I found which might have been Benjamin Cooper's was on 7.1.1833 at Hanover Close Independent Chapel, Brighton aged 83 of 4 Western Rd / his son Benjamin Cooper was in the 1841 census as an accountant and in 1851 as a retired banker's clerk / a Benjamin Cooper was committed to Kings Bench prison 16.11.1802 discharged 1804 but no reason to think this was either of them