COOPER, CHARLES HENRY English antiquary, was born at Great Marlow, on March 20 i8o8, and died at Cambridge on March 21 1866. He was borough coroner and then town clerk of Cambridge. His earliest production, A New Guide to the University and Town of Cambridge, was pub lished anonymously in 1831. The Annals of Cambridge (1842 53) contained a chronological history of the university and town from the earliest period to 1853. His most important work, the Athenae Cantabrigienses (1858, 1861), a companion work to the famous Athenae Oxonienses of Anthony a Wood, contains bio graphical memoirs of alumni of the university from to 1609. He left an immense collection of ms. materials for a biographical history of Great Britain and Ireland.