COOPER, Grey (c.1726-1801), of Worlington, Suff.

b. c. 1726, 1st s. of William Cooper, M.D., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by Mary, da. of Edward Grey of Alnwick. educ. M. Temple 1747, called 1751. m. (1) 5 Oct. 1753, Margaret (d. 1755), da. of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Bt., of Howick, Northumb., s.p.; (2) 19 July 1762, Elizabeth Kennedy of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2s. 2da. suc. fa. 5 May 1758; assumed, Aug. 1775, the baronetcy of Gogar [S] as heir male to the elder bro. of his gt.-gd.-fa., having been, at the sheriff’s court at Edinburgh, served heir by a service which was however, ‘never returned to Chancery, and [even] if it had been, could have conveyed no right to a title which had no existence’.GEC Baronetage, ii. 446-7.