Edward Joshua Cooper

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Irish landowner, politician and astronomer (1798-1863)

PoliticiansLived 1798 to 1863 · aged 64

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Edward Joshua Cooper was an Irish landowner, politician and astronomer from Markree Castle in County Sligo. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1841 and from 1857 to 1859, but is best known for his astronomy, and as the creator of Markree Observatory.

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Edward Joshua Cooper in old age $Temporary mounting of an achromatic refracting telescope: the property of E.J. Cooper, Esq. M.P. Lithograph 1831$ Temporary mounting of an achromatic refracting telescope: the property of E.J. Cooper, Esq. M.P. Lithograph 1831

Mr. Cooper's Great Achromatic Telescope, 1835. Dublin Penny Journal

Ex Libris: Edward Joshua Cooper, Markree Castle, Coat of arms

Awards 2

1858Cunningham Medal

Fellow of the Royal Society

Connected to Edward 3

Daniel Joseph BradleyAlso won Cunningham Medal Patrick HonohanAlso won Cunningham Medal

Howard GrubbAlso won Cunningham Medal

Politicians born in the 1790s 3

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John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite37.8

Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick38.2