English clergyman, born in England. He graduated at Oxford in 1760, and became a Fellow of Queen’s College. In 1762 he came to America as an assistant of President Johnson of King’s College, where he became professor of mental and moral philosophy. In the year following he became president. During 1771 President Cooper went to England and returned a short time before the opening of the Revolution. It is supposed that he published several tracts in the interest of the crown. His outspoken loyalist sentiments were unfavorably received by many, and his person was threatened with violence. On one occasion, it is said, he took to flight from a back window and fled to the house of a friend, sailing for England on the day following. When he reached that country, two parishes were placed in his charge; one in Berkshire and the other in Edinburgh, in which latter place he died on the 1st of May 1785. See also Thomas Jones, “How President Myles Cooper Ran away.”
