Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 02 July 1894

The Late Captain J. R. D. Cooper, R.N.

Captain John Robert Deane Cooper, R.N. (retired), whose death at Hastings, is announced, entered the Royal Navy in 1848, and, as a midshipman, distinguished himself on the East Coast of Africa, first the Brilliant, 20, and, after her paying off in 1849, in the Orestes, 14, during operations for the suppression of the slave trade.

He then joined the Castor, 36, and while attached to her participated the Kaffir War of 1851-52, for which he received the medal.  He was next appointed to the Wasp, 14, Commander Lord John Hay, and with her proceeded to the Black Sea, where he served ashore before Sebastopol for eleven months, and was present at the battle of Inkerman and the fall of Sebastopol.

Immediately after Inkerman he was specially promoted to be mate, and, at the close the war, to be Lieutenant. His first employment as Lieutenant was in the Vigilant, 4, in the Mediterranean; and he was subsequently attached to the Termagant, 25, on the South East Coast of America, and in the Pacific, to the Edinburgh, 60, and Trafalgar, 72, Coastguard ships at Queensferry, and to the Donagal, 81, at Liverpool.

In 1867 he became first Lieutenant! of the Minotaur, flagship in the Channel, in the following year was promoted to be Commander. In 1883 he retired with the rank of Captain. Captain Cooper was a Knight of the Legion Honour, and possessed the fifth class of the Medjidieh, as well as the Turkish and the Crimean medal, with the Sebastopol and Inkerman clasps.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1856.

Whitehall, August 2, 1856. THE Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto the undermentioned officers and men in Her Majesty's service Her Majesty's royal licence and permission, that they may accept and wear the Insignia of the several Classes of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, attached to their respective names, which His Majesty the Emperor of the French hath been pleased to confer upon them as a mark of His Imperial Majesty's approbation of their distinguished services before the enemy during the late war, [Crimean War] and that they may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto belonging ; viz. :........

 ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL NAVAL BRIGADE.

KNIGHTS (5th CLASS)—continued.

Lieutenant John Robert Deane Cooper

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 3rd, 1858

SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1858.

 ORDER OF THE MEDJIDIE;

 Whitehall, April 3, 1858.

THE Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto the undermentioned Officers Her Majesty's Royal license and permission that they may accept and wear the insignia of the several Classes of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie attached to their respective names, which His Imperial Majesty the Sultan hath been pleased to confer upon them as a mark of His Majesty's approbation of their distinguished services before the enemy during the late War, and that they may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto belonging, viz.:—

OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH NAVY AND MARINES.

5TH CLASS—continued.

Lieutenant John Robert Deane Cooper