Arthur Charles Cooper


Arthur Charles Cooper was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Cooper was born in London, the son of Edward Henry Cooper and his wife Charlotte Maria. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and went to South Africa where he served with Sir Charles Warren's Buchuanaland Expedition in 1884-1885 and with the Connaught Rangers against the Boer forces. He came to Queensland in 1886 and acquired Weewondilla Station at Longreach in 1889.
He returned to England in 1905, inherited a large fortune, and lived at Gissing Hall, Norfolk. He died in Norwich in October 1921.

Public life

Cooper, a Ministerialist, represented the seat of Mitchell from 1902 until he resigned in 1905 to return to England.