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Thomas Cooper (1805–1892)
Cooper, Thomas. An English poet and novelist, best remembered as a Chartist politician; born at Leicester, March 28, 1805; died at Lincoln, July 15, 1892. A shoemaker by trade, he engaged in politics, and soon found himself in prison, where he wrote ‘The Purgatory of Suicides,’ a moving epic of proletarianism. His ‘Captain Cobbler,’ a story, and his ‘Poetical Works,’ are favorably known.