Thomas Cooper, educated at the University of…
1584 CE
Thomas Cooper, educated at the University of Oxford, had become master of Magdalen College school and afterward practiced as a physician in Oxford.
The first edition of his most notable work, Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, had appeared in 1565.
Three other editions had followed in 1573, 1578, and 1584.
Queen Elizabeth is greatly pleased with the Thesaurus, which becomes known as Cooper's Dictionary.
Cooper, who had been ordained about 1559, had been made dean of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1567.
Two years later he had become dean of Gloucester, in 1571 bishop of Lincoln, and in 1584 becomes bishop of Winchester.
Cooper defends the practice and precept of the Church of England against the Roman Catholics on the one hand and against the Martin Marprelate writings and the Puritans on the other.