Neill Cooper-Key
Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key (26 April 1907 – 5 January 1981) was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1945 until his retirement in 1970.
The son of Captain Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key, C.B., M.V.O., of Landford, Fleet, Hampshire by his wife Florence (née Wigram), Cooper-Key was educated at Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth. He served in the Irish Guards during the Second World War, and alongside his later political career was a governor and committee member of the RNLI and director of Associated Newspapers Ltd, the Aberdeen Investment Trust, and Price Brothers Ltd. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1960.
On 11 January 1941 he married Hon. Lorna Peggy Vyvyan Harmsworth (24 October 1920 - 18 June 2014), elder daughter of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere. They had two sons and two daughters; the second- but only surviving- son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943-1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is the actress Isabella Calthorpe.
He lived at Burnt Wood, Battle, East Sussex.
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Neill Cooper-Key
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