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, Hampshire by his wife Florence (née Wigram), Cooper-Key was educated at the Royal Naval College, 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
- "Sir Neill Cooper-Key (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- "Members after 1832". membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. p. 2273. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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| Preceded byMaurice Hely-Hutchinson | Member of Parliament for Hastings 1945–1970 |
Succeeded byKenneth Warren |
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