Thomas Cooper
Chartist poet
Died when: 87 years 117 days (1047 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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Thomas Cooper (20 March 1805 – 15 July 1892) was an English poet and a leading Chartist.His prison rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides (1845) runs to 944 stanzas.
He also wrote novels and in later life religious texts.He was self-educated and worked as a shoemaker, then a preacher, a schoolmaster and a journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840.
He was seen as a passionate, determined and fiery man.
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