   thomas cooper (or couper;  â 29 april 1594) was an english bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer. ==life== cooper was born in oxford, england, where he was educated at magdalen college. he became master of magdalen college school and afterwards practised as a physician in oxford. elizabeth i was greatly pleased with his thesaurus, generally known as cooper's dictionary; and its author, who had been ordained about 1559, was made dean of christ church, in 1567. two years later he became dean of gloucester, in 1571 bishop of lincoln and in 1584 bishop of winchester. cooper was a stout controversialist; he defended the practice and precept of the church of england against the roman catholics on the one hand and against the martin marprelate writings and the puritans on the other. he took some part, the exact extent of which is disputed, in the persecution of religious recusants in his diocese, and died at winchester on 29 april 1594. ==works== cooper's literary career began in 1548, when he compiled, or rather edited, bibliotheca eliotae, a latin dictionary by sir thomas elyot. in 1549 he published a continuation of thomas lanquet's chronicle of the world.
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