Cooper Gallery Collections
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James Fox and the Fox family
James Fox’s story is an upwardly mobile tale. His grandfather worked in a local glass factory owned by the Thorp family. His father, Thomas, ran the Old Windmill pub on Shambles Street in Barnsley. As a young man Thomas worked as a labourer and a miner. In 1821 when he was 17, he was the sole survivor of the Norcroft mining disaster in the rural village of Silkstone.
Other Collectors
Other collectors include: Charles Sutherland H B Lowrance Mr and Mrs W J Lowrance Unknown donors More information will be updated on these collectors in the near future.
Roland Addy
At first sight, Captain Roland Addy, managing director of The Carlton Main Coal Company, was a solid Edwardian industrialist. He owned collieries at Brierley, Grimethorpe, Frickley and Hatfield Main and lived in splendour at Brierley Hall. But Captain Addy, born in Felkirk, South Hiendley in 1891, was also a sensitive connoisseur of midtolate 19th century art.
Samuel Joshua Cooper
The founder of the gallery Samuel Joshua Cooper bought the building at auction in 1912 for £3,300 when Barnsley Grammar School moved out. First, he gave it to the National Reserve, an early version of the Territorial Army, for a club. But before he died, in 1913, Cooper made the decision to leave the building in trust, with ambitious plans for it to be extended and turned into an art gallery.
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler was born in Barnsley in 1861. The Sadler family lived very close to the Cooper Gallery at 21 Church Street, and his father was Michael Thomas Sadler, the Medical Officer of Health for Barnsley and an executor of S.J. Cooper’s will. Michael Thomas was highlyrespected as a campaigner for better living conditions for local people.
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