11 Facts About Myles Cooper

Myles Cooper was thereby sent to New York in 1762 to assist Samuel Johnson, president of King's College, which was an Anglican establishment.

Myles Cooper was appointed professor of mental and moral philosophy, and a year later he had assumed the college presidency.

Myles Cooper was chosen to replace his predecessor in the position of College President primarily because the Governors of the institution believed he would be far easier to control.

Indeed, Myles Cooper was not entirely engaged in the educational mission of King's, possessing a larger cache of alcoholic beverages than books, and more frequently engaging in the urban life of New York.

Still, the college prospered under Myles Cooper's tenure, creating, among other things, the second medical college in the Americas, in 1767.

Myles Cooper was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1769.

Myles Cooper was reportedly more enamored with the Southern colonies than New York, and frequently took to "rambles" there.

Myles Cooper proposed that the Colonial Colleges be merged into an "American University", the structure of which would be similar to Oxford or Cambridge.

Myles Cooper, who was a conservative with Tory sympathies, did not take warmly to the growing revolutionary spirit in the colonies.

Myles Cooper authored, with several other Anglican clergy in New York, political tracts arguing that all forms of resistance to the Crown constituted treason.

Myles Cooper fled to England that same month, where he engaged in numerous professions.