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 operations in the Western Transvaal. Commandant, Riversdale and Beaufort, West Cape Colony. Tibet Expedition, 1904; present at the storming of Gyantse Jong and advance to Lhassa. Commanded the troops in North China, 1910-14, including the Chinese Revolution of 1911. European War, 1914-18: in command of 46th and 13th Brigades, and 58th London Division. Retired, 1918, with the rank of Major-General. Is a D.L. for Westmeath. Res.: Dunboden Park, Mullingar. Clubs: Naval and Military; Royal Irish Automobile.

COOPER, Major-General Edward Joshua, C.B. (1904), M.V.O., 4th class (1906), D.S.O. (1900), D.L. .Co. Westmeath; served with R. Fus., Egypt, 1886; S. Africa, 1899-1902; Tibet, 1904; European War, 1914-15; Brig.-Gen. comdg. troops in N. China, 1910-14; Major-Gen. (temp.) comdg. 58th London Divn., 1915-16; Brig.-Comdr., 1917-18; ret. p. and granted hon. rank of Maj.-Gen,, 1918; eldest son of late Col. Joshua Harry Cooper, of Dunboden, Co. Westmeath; b. 1858; m. 1894, Effie, only dau. of late J. S. Balmain, Dalvrek, Perth. Res.: Dunboden Park, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. Royal Irish Automobile Club, Dublin.

COOPER, James (M.P., Fermanagh and Tyrone. Northern Ireland, from 1921), Member of Enniskillen Urban District Council; Director of James Cooper & Co. (Enniskillen), Ltd., wholesale and retail provision merchants; Director, Erne Manufacturing and Repairing Boot Co., Ltd., Enniskillen; P.M.G., Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland; Admitted a Solicitor, 1905. Educ.: Portora Royal School and Wesley College, Dublin: second son of late James Cooper, of Brook View Lodge, Enniskillen; b. 1882. Recs.: motoring, fishing, cricket. Res.: Brook View Lodge, Enniskillen. Reform Club, Belfast; Enniskillen Yacht Club.

COOTE, William (M.P., South Tyrone since 1916); M.P., for Fermanagh and Tyrone, Northern Parliament, Ireland, 1921); Apprenticed to the provision trade; at twenty years started and successfully carried on a business in his native district; removed to Newry, Co. Down, 1891, and from thence to Clogher, Co. Tyrone, 1893, where he built up a business as' auctioneer and stock-owner; rented a large mill premises at Ballygawley idle for 35 years, where he started and developed the manufacture of woollen yarns, 1900, subsequently forming this into a private limited Co., of which he is the Managing Director; since the War he has developed a Hosiery Factory in Aughnacloy; Managing Director of John K. Wilson & Co., Wholesale Woollen Merchants, Belfast; J.P., Co. Tyrone, 1901; a County Councillor, Co. Tyrone, 1903. Recn.: gardening; son of William Coote, of Killevalley, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan; b. 1863; m. 1889, Letitia Allen, of Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, and has issue four sons, one dau. Res.: Aberfayle, Maryville Park, Balmoral, Belfast. Club: Constitutional, London.

COOTE, Sir Ralph Algernon, 12th13th [sic] Bart. (Irld., 1621), Premier Baronet of Ireland; late Capt., 17th Lancers; Temp. Capt., R.A F.; eldest son of Sir Algernon Coote, 12th Bart., and Jean (d. 1880), dau of late Capt, John Trotter; b. 22nd Sept., 1874; s. his father, 23rd Oct., 1920; m. 12th April, 1904, Alice Matilda Mary, younger dau. of the late Thomas W, Webber, D.L., and has issue two sons—John Ralph, b. 10th Jan., 1905, Thomas Charles, b. 24th Aug., 1907. Res.: Ballyfin House, Mountrath, Queen's Co.

COPPINGER, Thomas Stephen, J.P., Co. Cork; second and eldest surviving son of late Thos. Stephen Coppinger, J.P., of Midleton, Co. Cork, and Annette (d. 1889), 4th dau. of Sir John Power, 1st Bart., of Edermine, Co. Wexford; b. 1843; m. 1878, Martha (d. 1914), eldest dau. and coheiress of Edwd. Murphy, of Cahirelly, Co. Limerick. Res.: Midleton Lodge, Midleton, Co. Cork. County Club, Cork.

CORBALLIS, James Frederick; eldest son of James Henry Corballis, J.P. (d. 1903), of Ratoath Manor, Co. Meath, by Constance (d. 1914), 2nd dau. of Frederick Jerningham; b. 1865; m. Sybil, elder dau. of Oliver Musgrave-Bladen, of Creechbarrow, Taunton, Lieut. Cameron Highlanders Militia, subsequently 1st Batt. The Royal Irish Regt.; served in S. African War, 1900, and European War, 1914-15, on Reserve of Officers; Divisional Registrar for Wales under Ministry of Labour, 1917-19; is Lord of the Manor of Ratoath. Res.: Ratoath Manor.

CORBALLY, Elias Mary Benedict, D.L., J.P., Co. Dublin, M.A., B.E., T.C.D.; b. 9th July, 1868, eldest son of the late Matthew J. Corbally, D.L., J.P., of Rathheale Hall, Swords. High Sheriff, 1917; District Councillor, 1916; m. 1910 The Lady Mary Pepys, only dau. of 3rd Earl of Cottenham; 2 sons, 5 daus. Business: Landowner and farmer. Recns.; hunting, shooting, lawn tennis, motoring. Res.: Rathbeale Hall. Swords, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Windham, London; Stephen's Green, and Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis and Automobile Clubs, Dublin.

CORCORAN, Rev. Timothy, S.J., D.Litt. (N.U.I.), 1912. Educ.: Clongowes Wood Coll.; Louvain; Royal University (Univ. Scholar in Classics; B.A., 1st CI., History and Economics; Univ. Gold Medals for English Verse, for Latin Verse, and for Education). Professor of Education, Univ. Coll., Dublin, 1909;<section end="Corcoran, Rev. Timothy" /> Repre-