The Athenae Cantabrigienses was the most ambitious of several large
writing projects undertaken by Charles Henry Cooper, a keen
historian, successful lawyer and town clerk of Cambridge in the
mid-nineteenth century. He enlisted the help of his elder son,
Thompson Cooper, for this book, a collection of
carefully-researched biographies of distinguished figures with
Cambridge connections, inspired by Anthony Wood's Athenae
Oxonienses (1692). Two volumes were published during Cooper
senior's lifetime, but only 60 pages of this third volume (which
covers 1609-1611) were completed during his lifetime, and he died
in 1866 leaving an enormous quantity of notes. Even in its
incomplete state, the work contains about seven thousand
biographies; their subjects include clergymen, military commanders,
judges, artists, scholars and benefactors of the University. Volume
3 was finally published in 1913 and contains additions and
corrections to the previous volumes and an updated index.
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