Cooper, William (3)

an English Congregational minister, was born in Warwickshire, August 28, 1776. He delivered his first sermon February 1, 1795, and a few months later became the most popular preacher of his day. Multitudes pressed to hear him at Spa Fields and Tottenham-Court-Road chapels, as well as in the Tabernacle. He discoursed to the Jews in Zion Chapel, London, August 28, 1796, on his twentieth birthday. The throng was so great that thousands could not gain entrance, and while he was speaking inside four other ministers preached outside. He undertook a tour through various parts of Ulster, Ireland, in the summer of 1799, addressing thousands, and also made a second tour the following summer. He was then called to the pastorate of the Plunket Street Congregational Church, Dublin, and entered upon his labors in April, 1802, where he continued till March, 1828, when he was forced to retire from public effort. He died January 22, 1848. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1848, page 217.