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William Couper (natural Philosopher)
William Couper may refer to: * William Couper (bishop) William Couper (or Cowper) (1568–1619) was a Bishop of Galloway in Scotland. Life The son of John Couper, merchant-tailor, of Edinburgh, he was born in 1568. After receiving some elementary instruction in his native city, and attending a ... (1568–1619), Scottish bishop and theologian * William Couper (sculptor) (1853–1942), American sculptor * William Couper (naturalist) (fl. 1850s–1886), American entomologist and naturalist See also * William Cooper (other) * William Cowper (other) {{hndis, Couper, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (bishop)
William Couper (or Cowper) (1568–1619) was a Bishop of Galloway in Scotland. Life The son of John Couper, merchant-tailor, of Edinburgh, he was born in 1568. After receiving some elementary instruction in his native city, and attending a school at Dunbar for four years, he entered in 1580 the university of St. Andrews, where he graduated M. A. in 1583. He then went to England, where he was for some years assistant-master in a school at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Returning to Edinburgh he was licensed a preacher of the church of Scotland in 1586, and admitted minister of the parish of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, in August 1587, whence he was translated to the second charge of Perth in October 1595. He was a member of six of the nine assemblies of the church from 1596 to 1608. Although one of the forty-two ministers who signed the protest to parliament, 1 July 1606, against the introduction of episcopacy, in 1608 he attended the packed assembly regarded by the presbyterians a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (sculptor)
William L Couper (September 20, 1853 – June 23, 1942) was an American sculptor. Life and career Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Couper studied in Munich and Florence, and remained in the latter city for 22 years before returning to the United States and establishing himself in New York in 1897 as a portraitist and sculptor of busts in the modern Italian manner. He and Thomas Ball purchased a three-story brick building on 17th Street in Manhattan to serve as shared studio space. He married Eliza Chickering Ball, daughter of sculptor Thomas Ball (1819–1911), in Florence in 1878. He was also a colleague of Daniel Chester French. He sculpted the figure of the Roman goddess ''Flora'' for the exhibit of the Apollinaris Company at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 his work won a bronze medal. Couper retired from sculpting in 1913. Couper is well known for his winged figures, such as the ''Recording Angel'' at the Couper family pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Couper (naturalist)
William Couper ( fl. 1850s–1886) was an American entomologist and naturalist who came to prominence during the later half of the 19th century in Canada. The better known period of his life spans from the 1850s to 1886. Biography Effectively nothing is known of Couper's early life, although it is speculated that he was born in Sheldon, Vermont. He came to Canada and established himself in Toronto likely around 1843 (he later noted having lived there for 17 years, and left the city in 1860). A conference by Henry Holmes Croft, a University College teacher, spurred him into collecting his first specimens. A few years later his collections of insects and various related structures (nests, cocoons, galleries...) were noticed and praised in '' The Canadian Journal'', an interest he would maintain (1863 he noted these collections to amount to 6 000 specimens). These collections were prized in 1856. Although entomology and ornithology (particularly the former) were his main inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooper (other)
William Cooper may refer to: Business *William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers * William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman * William Cooper (co-operator) (1822–1868), English co-operator * William E. Cooper (civic leader) (1921–2008), prominent businessman in Dallas, Texas * William W. Cooper (1914–2012), management scientist Government *William B. Cooper (Delaware politician) (1771–1849), American farmer and politician * William B. Cooper (North Carolina politician) (1867–1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina * William C. Cooper (politician) (1832–1902), US congressman from Ohio *William Cooper (judge) (1754–1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York * William Cooper (Prince Edward Island politician), Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island * Prentice Cooper (William Prentice Cooper, 1895–1969), Tennessee governor * William Raworth Cooper (1793–1856), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |