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coupled with the new synthetic insecticide were gradually to replace the original Cooper's sheep dip which by now was used around the globe and assisted in the improvement to the economy of sheep farming from
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In 1940 the company joined the war effort and developed the Anti-Louse Powder known as AL63. This was an important if largely unlauded medical breakthrough, during World War I lice had contributed heavily to the death count. The powder - a dust - not only killed lice but also acted as a preventative.
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Cooper died in 1885 - he had been joined in the business by two nephews Henry
Herbert Cooper who died in 1891 and Richard Powell Cooper. Richard Cooper on the death of his brother Henry became the sole proprietor of the business by now known as "Cooper & Nephews". It is from Richard Powell Cooper
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Aged 43 Cooper inherited the family business from his uncle, and from 1885 to 1889 undertook a large scale expansion of the company. A shrewd business man, he made investments in land worldwide and by 1913 owned 250,000 acres (1,000 km) around the globe, and with mines in New
Zealand, Rhodesia,
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Cooper was born on 21 September 1847, the son of Henry Cooper of
Clunbury, Aston-on-Clun, Shropshire. Privately educated, he completed his secondary education at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, qualifying as veterinary surgeon in 1868. Two years later in 1870 he founded his own practice in
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Robertson Ltd. The new company Cooper, Mcdougall and Robertson became a household name in Britain due to its merchandise which included many everyday products from domestic aerosol insecticides to
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Berkhamsted-based business expanded at considerable speed, the newly built factory taking every advantage of the new mechanical innovations of the day. In the 1860s the horses powered mills were replaced with steam powered machinery. The
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Bedfordshire. A keen horsemen at Billington Cooper had laid out a point-to-point course, and the Billington Races became a nationally known racing fixture. Cooper's eldest son William, regularly raced there against well known and aristocratic names of the day such
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brimstone emulsified in animal fats. Cooper began to conduct his own experiments with preparations of arsenic and sulphur. By 1852 his experiments were conclusive enough for him to market the first truly effective
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is a prime example of the achievement and social mobility possible in that age of scientific and industrial progress. When for the first time social advancement was occurring on a large scale.
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Doctor Sir Francis Ashmole Cooper, 4th Baronet (1905–1987). He married Dorothy Frances Hendrika Deen, whose brother founded the Blue Star Garage chain.
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factory had its own printing press producing labels of a complicated design in order to prevent the sheep dip being faked by the unscrupulous.
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nonprescription medications for both animals and humans.
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Sir Francis Ashmole Cooper, 4th Baronet (1905–1987)
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190:Sir Richard Powell Cooper, 5th Baronet (1934–2006)
71:of the United Kingdom on 20 December 1905 for the
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352:Married to Eileen Dolores Patricia (1900-1980).
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668:"Cooper, Sir Richard Powell"
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