Dr Soper's Eye-Drops. His recipe published 1658. In a book listing medicines used by the Royal Family over the previous 350 years
Thomas Soaper Surgeon in Extraordinary to the Person, 4 Oct 1660 'no furthur occasion' (Lord Chamberlain Papers PRO, 3/26 folio 145) [also recorded as Thomas Soper] : Database of Court Officers : [The monarcy was restored with Charles II 8 May 1660] : [There were 5 Physicians to the Person appointed to the new court June 1660. In addition 4 Physicians to the Person in Extraordinary appointed in Oct, the same day as Soaper (perhaps just the day the lord chamberlain's warrant was signed)] : [extraordinary='used for a special service, or occasion'] : [some doctors apponted to the court, most to the person (of the king)]
Thomas Soper, was a defendant in 'Morgan v Morgan', 1664, High Holborn, London : Plaintiffs, Mary Morgan (spinster), Elizabeth Morgan (widow) & Bledrey Morgan : Defendants, Thomas & Susannah Sedgwicke, Nicholas Hughes, Thomas Falcon & Thomas Soper : ref C6/168/91 www.british-history.ac.uk
Thomas Soper had a house in Westminster. Licences were granted in 1672 to John Dan of St. Martin's, a Presbyterian preacher, for Presbyterian meetings at the house . Source Cal. S.P. Dom. 1672-3, page 94. www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
Thomas Soper, citizen & apothecary of London, leased the manor of Hoselands & Coghurst lands in Gesling, Wesfield and Ore, Sussex (with Anthony Bower from Nicolas Delves) 8 Nov 1687 : Archive of Frere and Co of London, solicitors : ref SAS-F/414 : www.a2a : see biography 1646
Thomas Soper 1 of 4 on list of St Thomas's Hospital's List of Governor Takers-In of Patients for January 1691; & Mr Soaper appoynted to view the druggs etc: & taker in of poor 3 months ending 16 Feb 1690 [4 others on rota for Feb; ext] londonlives.org; & Jul 1691 londonlives.org; still on St Thomas's Court of Governors londonlives.org
Mr Soper apothecary, appointed to committe of St Thomas's Hospital, London; 10 Dec 1691; londonlives.org
Thomas Soper of St. Olave, Burrough of Southwarke, Surrey, apothecary. Probate, engrossed inventories 28 July 1694 nationalarchives.gov.uk ref 1694W]

Mr Soaper was 'barber' to Sir Peter Lely, the artist 1680. He was paid �7 by the executors of Lely's will. (& �6 to Mr Valentine for a periwig) : [perhaps the inverted commas mean surgeon/barber?] : [Sir Peter Lely (1618-80) 'the most popular portrait artist in England'] from 'Every Saturday' pub 1874 GoogleBooks.com

Gilbert Soper buried, 1688 Westminster (St Martin In The Fields or St Paul, Covent Garden) London Burial Index, from BritishOrigins.com
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Gilbert Soper, barber, surgeon ['Chirurgeon'] of St Martin in the Fields. His will 8 Mar 1689 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Prob.11/394 [scan available online]
- Gilbert Soper surgeon of St Martin-in-the-Fields. One surgeon qualified with just a statement signed by Soper. It was sufficient to licence one surgeon (rather than serve an apprenticeship through Barber-Surgeons Hall) source [p.203]

John Soper, son of John Soper, deceased of -, apprenticed to Philip Phillips, 1718, an apothocary of Plymouth, Dev; Payment, �42; ref 45/132, Page 5477 British Apprentice List, from BritishOrigins.com; Also apprenticed 22 May 1731 to Phillip Phillips, apothacory 17 Jul 1718 at Plymouth, Dev; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan

Thomas Soper, son of John Soper of Totness, Dev 'innh..' apprenticed to William Bredall, 1731, a surgeon of Tavistock, Dev; Payment �63; ref 12/162, Page 5478 British Apprentice List, from BritishOrigins.com; scan

John Soper (1727-1787) Surgeon of St Columb, Cornwall

perhaps connection to John Soper (?-c1659) surgeon of St Columb, above, several generations earlier?

presume parents ; John Soper m.Grace Hoblyn 7 Jul 1726 at Phillack : bapt children at St Marys, Truro : John Soper 23 Aug 1727 : Grace Soper 23 Jan 1729 [Grace m.James Seer, Truro 1752 -see 1761] : William Soper 29 Aug 1730 (d.24 Apr 1731) : Richard Soper 9 Mar 1732 : Thomas Soper 21 Mar 1733** : Thomas Soper 21 Mar 1734 (d.5 Sep 1737) : William Soper 25 Mar 1736 (d.25 Jun 1737) : Thomas Soper 30 Mar 1738 : igi : [**added from www.cornwall-opc-database.org]

John Soper apprenticed to Alex Trevethan, 1743, a surgeon of Halstone, Cornwall; Payment, �70, ref 50/268, page5477, British Apprentice List, from BritishOrigins.com; Also apprenticed to Alexander Trevethan, surgeon 18 Jun 1743 at Halstow; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan

Mr Soper, address, St Columb, Cornwall, occupation, 'surgeon medicine', subscribed to a book publication, 1752, 'A Paraphrase, with Critical Annotations, on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans & Galatians' : from Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists

John Soper, surgeon apprenticed Willm Jackson, son of John Jackson, 9 Jun 1759 at St Columb, Brecon, Con; scan; apprenticed John King, 22 Dec 1764 at St Columb Major, Con scan; & apprenticed Isaac Head, 18 Jul 1769 at St Columb Major scan & apprenticed Richard Johns, 12 Sep 1769 at St Columb Major scan & as 'surgeon & apothercary ' John apprenticed John Maddern, 27 May 1773 all at St Columb Major, Con scan

John Soper of St Columb, surgeon (in trust for sole & separate use of his sister Grace Seer exclusive of her husband) left �100, in the will of his cousin, Grace Percivall of Pendarves, widow. 3 Dec 1761 : The will mentions many other cousins. Cornwall Record Office, ref RP/4/30/6 : [see Cornwall 1739, 1752, 1761, 1764 & 1779] www.a2a

John Soper, surgeon was tenent of a house & plot in St Columb, Cornwall (undertenanted to William Varcoe). Varcoe's moor was next to a plot leased to tin miners at 1 guinea per man working there, 5 Apr 1764 : National Archives AR/14/226

John Soper, surgeon (undertenant to William Varcoe), parish of St Columb. 5 April 1764. Agreement with John Best & Thomas Merifield, of St Wenn, tinners. Allowing tin panning on Moor? for 1 guinea a year per man working there : Cornwall Record Office: Arundell family of Lanherne & Trerice Records ref AR/14/226 www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

John Soper & James Coad both gents of St Columb Major; 25 Mar 1770. Mortgage by assignment of 99y lease to John Rowse of St Columb Major, yeo : Consideration �250. Victor's or Constable's tenement (16 acres) in Trenhellecks or Trenhelegg Cornwall Records : WH/1/5647

John Soper, a mentioned in The Sherborne & Yeovil Mercury on 29 Aug 1774, "St Columb - market tolls" : source
Mr Soper a mentioned in The Sherborne & Yeovil Mercury, 2 May 1774, "St Columb selling book on mineralogia" [presumably the John Soper above] : source

Mr Soper, surgeon, St Columb, subscribed to 'Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines & Mining' the workings of tin, copper & lead mines 1778 from google book

John Soper of St Columb; minerals letter 30 Sep 1778. Says he has 'sent a Box with the minerals with a two-page list of minerals, with origin. Under the letter is a note 'Sent with the above minerals to Sir Francis Bassett 21 Jan 1782. W.S.' 1778. �45. Inc Cornish specimens, 'Brown foliated Mica, St Dennis'; 'Manganese. St Columb'; 'Striated Cockle, St Austle'. 7 types of tin, inc 'Stream Tin with gold'. localhistory.co.uk

John Soper of St Columb Major, gent bought deeds for tenement & Tallack's meadow, Newlyn, from William Prynn of Newlyn, gent.(& w. Josepha) 1779 : Cornwall Record Office: ref.WH1/3191 www.a2a :

Dr J Soper, St Columb, Cornwall, 1779. Corresponded with John Catton & Edward Giddy, regarding Bishop's tenements : Cornwall Record Office: Arundell family of Lanherne & Trerice : ref AR/10/789

Mr Soper, apothecary, 'a very intelligent man' at St Columb, said Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) when his travelling party went to see his collection but they were disappointed earths, stones & clays were too mean to find a place in the museums of Cornish collectors; from Chapter on 'His Journey into Cornwall' (1787?) : [his party interested in geological sites] source

John Soper, esq, of London, son & heir of John Soper, surgeon, deceased, of St Columb Major, 20-1 Mar 1787 lease & release to William Rowe, butcher of St CM : St Columb dwelling house, backside & garden formerly the lands of Champion, then of John Soper, now of John Peter, surgeon. Consideration: �250 : Cornwall Records Office

Dr Abraham Soper of St Sidwell was a substitute for John Gage of Uplyme. 1782; payments to families of Militia men & their substitutes; Paid �2 2s for 14 weeks from Apr-Jul 1782, at 1s pw each for his family; Uplyme Parish Records; ref 3030A/PO 21/3-4 : [perhaps unlikely he was a doctor from these details; substitutes could be employed to do your military service] : [?Abraham Soper, bpt 7 Nov 1756, Exeter to Abraham Soper & Ann Wilks] : [hint he might have gone to US 1783 which might account for no other entrys of Dr.A]

Soper Female Pills, available at Steers Medicinal Warehouse, Old Bond Street 31 May 1792 : advert from The Times

John Soper ; 1797 of Bridge, Leeds, Yorkshire, a surgeon & apothecary, medicine (m/a) 'personal note; volunteer' from Leeds Directory, 1797 Also in 1798 & 1800 directory : from web & Ancestry.com's database of Directories & Lists, [his wife d.1801 & mother d.1805 Leeds, seems John survived them]
: 1800 John Soper surgeon 1 of 22 Leeds doctors signing their approval of the vaccine inoculations, 1800 source p.570 : [1st smallpox vaccine by cowpox developed 1797; 15k vaccinated in London Aug 1800]
: 1800 Mrs Soper, wife of Mr Soper of Leeds, surgeon died on Saturday fe'nnight after a short illness, , from 'The Hull Packet' 13 Oct 1801
: 1805 Lately Mrs Soper mother of Mr Soper of Leeds, surgeon, died, from 'The Hull Packet' 1 Oct 1805, 'York Herald' 9 Mar & 'Monthly Magazine' newspapers.bl.uk,

Samuel Soper (Doctor), of London*, moved to Newfoundland early 1800's. His daughter, Elizabeth, m.James Simmonds, from Madonna, mobymoo2001'at'yahoo.ca Samuel's paternal ggg.granddaughter, Jan 2002 : source : [*perhaps? City of London, Ontario? : no Dr Samuel visable England (or vis www), so perhaps became Dr after immigration?]

On Saturday fe'nnight after a short illness, Mrs Soper, wife of Mr Soper of Leeds, surgeon died, from 'The Hull Packet' 13 Oct 1801
Lately Mrs Soper mother of Mr Soper of Leeds, surgeon, died, from 'The Hull Packet' 1 Oct 1805, 'York Herald' 9 Mar & 'Monthly Magazine' newspapers.bl.uk, [see 1797 above]

Henry Soaper apprenticed to William M Wickham, surgeon & a 26 Apr 1805 at Winchester, Hants; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan : [not linked]

John Soper Streeter (1802-1873) MRCS, FRCS, LSA; London Surgeon

?a John Soper Streeter bpt.1 Oct 1798 Westminster to William Streeter & Ann [bmd records] : [assume died, as...]

John Soper Streeter bpt.14 Sep 1802 Westminster to William Streeter & Ann [bmd records]

John Soper Streeter b.26 Jul 1802 (b.Dury Lane where his father was for long in general practice*] ; admitted to Westminster School 8 Apr 1816, left 1820; Guy's Hospital LAC. 1823; LSA 1923; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons 6 Aug 1824; Royal Medical & C Soc of London 1844; Royal College of Surgeons 6 Jul 1852; practiced Harpur St, Red Lion Sq, London; died 3 Jul 1873 Records of Old Westminsters, 1927
- John Soper Streeter of 20 Harpur St, London WC; Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1823; Mem 1824; Fell 1852; R Coll Surg Eng 1854. On Medical Register 27 Jun 1862 from The Medical Register, pub.1864; Google Books
- John Soper Streeter m.Charlotte Smith of Framwell, Msx 18 May 1830, at St Martin In the Fields, Westminster; witnesses J Smith & Elizabeth March scan; m.licence 14 May 1830
- John Soper Streeter paid poor law rates for 44 Drury Ln, St Martin In the Fields 1830 when �2 8s, 32,33,34,35, 1836 18 shillings
- John Soper Streeter of Drury Lane, Parish of St Martin, voted for Evans & Leander in 26 Jul 1837 election for 2 Westminster MPs source
John Soper Streeter, his English, Dental Scaling Set, 1840 : Inventory no. 54169, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford source : also Inventory nr 39697, Surgical Instruments In Pocket Case c. 1830 & Microscope [presented by Canon B H Streeter in 1924 : J Soper Streeter, great uncle of the Provost of Queens]
John Soper Streeter of 20 Harpur St, "Practical Observations on Abortion". pub.London: Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1840 Publications List, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists; dedication to Samuel Merriman "by his former student"; Streeter had been enquiring into the nervous system & wished to study the brain's development in the embrio. His patients provided foetus aborted through miscarriages, which he studied" transcript [10 page preface in 80 pages, perhaps Streeter justifying his study]
- relation? a John Soper Streeter, (son?) a solicitor from Croydon, his daughter married 1910
J Soper Streeter elected to the 24 man committee of the Phrenological Society, Lon at it's 5th AGM June 1842 [character predictions from study of protuberances of the skull] : from google books
John Soper Streeter Icones Obstetric�: by MOREAU, Francois Joseph, a series of sixty plates, illustrative of the art and science of midwifery; edited, with practical observations & tables, by J T Streeter. [STREETER, John Soper] : pub London, 1842 British Library & National Archives
John Soper Streeter b.Jul>Sep 1843, Croydon, Surrey (bmd) : [a solicitor; see legal Sopers]
J Soper Streeter on Committee of Phrenological Association [UK] next meet London, then Edinburgh 1843 from The American Phrenological Journal 1843 Google Books snippet
John Soper Streeter esq of Harper St, Red Lion Sq. Elected 1844, fellow Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society of London : from their Book 1845 Google Books : Still a fellow 1849
- Dr Soper one of 1-200 at 96th anniversary of Royal Maternity Charity; in 'The Morning Chronicle' (pub.Lon) 30 Apr 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk : [only London doctor, John Soper Streeter]
John Soper Streeter I'm a member of the College of Surgeons, & licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company�my attention generally directed to brain & it's diseases, suicide & insanity� In my opinion he is not of unsound mind at the moment� It was an uncontrollable impulse, he was ignorant of wrong. (Mr Ovenstone indicted for feloniously discharging a pistol at Mr Crawley), verdict not guilty, insane. Old Bailey 25 Oct 1847
John Soper Streeter, 48 married, gen practitioner b.M.sx; at 20 Harper St, St George the Martyr parish, Finsbury, Lon, 1851 census; bro-in-law George Smith 41unm annuitant b.Framfield, Msx; 3 unm servants Charles Allan 22; Maria Berry 37 cook & Eliza Lince 23 housemaid
John Soper Streeter, auditor of Metrpolitan Counties Life Assurance Society, retires from office & being eligible for re-election offers himself accordingly; in 'Morning Post' 16 May 1851, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
John Soper Streeter FRCS &c & 100s of other London doctors signed a petition requesting a long promised park for North London; from Medical Times, 1853 from google books
- a John Soper Streeter Esq & Henry Peach Buckler the retiring auditors of Metropolitan Counties & General Life Insurance Society, were re-elected : from Guardian Newspaper, 28 May 1853
- John Soper Streeter & Henry Buckler, auditors, offer themselves for re-election at AGM Metropolitan Counties Life Assurance Society 9 May 1857, Waterloo Place, Lon (London Gazette 8 May) : same couple yearly 1858-63
- John Soper Streeter, Harper Lane, Bloomsbury, auditor of Metropolitan Counties & General Life Assurance Society; in 'Freeman's Journal' (pub.Lon) 10 Jul 1860, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
John S Streeter, 68 widower FRCS; LAS b.Msx; at 20 Harper St, St George the Martyr parish, Finsbury, Lon, 1871 census; 3unm gen servants Alice Renton 30 b.Newcastle, Alice Greener 27 b.Newcastle, Edwin Nye 14 b.Kent & visitor Elizabeth H Renton 7 b.Newcastle
- John Soper Streeter - a relation? 27 an attorney & solicitor at father's White House Farm, Sanderstead, Surrey in '71cen : Parents William Streeter 71 a farmer of 385a employing 12, b.Soho & Mary Streeter 61 b.W.Hothly, Sx : 3 children 24-32 all b.Sanderstead : from ancestry.com
- John Soper Streeter 20 Harpur St, Lon, WC; Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1823; mem 1824, Fell 1852, R Coll Surg Eng 1 Jan 1859; from The Medical Register 1872 (same 1874) Google Books snippet
- a John Soper Streeter died 1873 aged 70. Jul-Sep Holborn Registration District : vol 1b, page 387; [d.3 July 1873 at 20 Harpur St & buried in family vault, Thornton Heath*]
*source John Soper Streeter (1802-1873), Biogs of Royal College of Surgeon
- a relation? (not son) John Soper Streeter b.1843 Croydon, a solicitor in '71cen with parents William Streeter & Mary at their large Sanderstead farm : m.1873 [see legal Sopers]
John Soper Streeter (1802-1873), from biogs of Royal College of Surgeons;
- Born in Drury Lane, where his father was for long in general practice, and was educated at the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualifying he joined his father in his practice, and continued to carry it on in the same house until a few years before his death, when he removed to Harpur Street, Red Lion Square. He was one of the pupils of Spurzheim, whose lectures on phrenology he attended and whose cause he advocated both when it was popular and when under the cloud of derision.
- He was a man above the ordinary standard both in intellect and acquirements, and found time in a laborious practice to read and to write. Much esteemed by his brethren, he constantly attended the meetings of the Medical Society of London and that of Westminster, and made carefully prepared and somewhat didactic speeches. He served the office of President in the second of these societies in a manner at once urbane and dignified. His biographer, who signs himself "J F C", says of him:
- "Though fully impressed with a sense of his own importance, he was one of the kindest and most inoffensive of men. I recollect no instance, during a period of thirty years, of his ever having uttered an offensive word. During the last few years of his life, being in independent circumstances, he became what may be called somewhat of an idle man, devoting himself to reading which was mainly confined to works on medical subjects. He was very fond of chat and was apt to hold his hearer 'by the button'. No matter how urgent was the business of his friend, or whatever excuse he might make to be released, Streeter always managed to arrest him for a time in a manner which was really comical."
- Yet he left no enemy behind him and was sincerely mourned by a large circle. He died at 20 Harpur Street on July 3rd, 1873, and was buried in the family vault at Thornton Heath. His photograph is in the College Album.
- He is described as being above the middle height, of robust frame, and with a face full of intelligence. His head, says J F C, "might have been moulded into a phrenological model". His likeness is reminiscent of the late Sir John Simon, KCB. He was a Member of the Russell Institute, Hon Fellow (at one time President) of the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, and Hon Fellow of the Medical Society of London.

?John Soaper, apprenticed to James Johnston, surgeon & a 14 Mar 1778 at Portsea, Hants; Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures scan
J Soaper & A Swann, surgeons of Southwick, Hampshire. Partnership Disolved : The Times 18 April 1820 : [a John Soaper married 1763 & a John Soaper died 1764, both at Southwick] : [see will (death?) 1837, Hants]
John Soper appeared before the Royal College, of Surgeons, Edinburgh. 1 of 60 found fully qualified to practice the arts of Anatomy, Surgery & Pharmacy, 15 May 1820 : The Edinburgh Advertiser 15 May : from source : [perhaps the Dr (c1797-c1849) who died Devon 1849]
John Soper surgeon, mentioned in The London Medical Journal 1833 google books
: John Soaper a surgeon left the interest on �400 to the poor of the parish : on a memorial board, St George's Church, Waterlooville, Hants in 1833 St George's site
John Soaper (c1764-1837) of Southwick, d.25 Apr age 73, 'much respected for the integrety & kindness of his character, 'Hampshire Telegraph' (pub Portsmouth 1 May) 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk
: George Soaper surgeon [perhaps assume 'John'] died at Southwick at an advanced age [N of Portsmouth], 'Jackson's Oxford Journal' 6 May 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk
John Soaper a Gent & surgeon of Southwick, Hants : Probate 11 July 1837 Bank of England Will Extracts, ref: 50 K-Z : 10427 http://www.englishorigins.com, Available online from National Archives Prob 11/1882 : [www.hants.gov.uk]
John Soper surgeon, by will, proved 1837, bequeathed �400 new three per cents & directed the interest thereof to be laid out in bread for distribution to the poor on 25 Jan each year for ever. The Trust Fund now consists of �390 8s. 1d. consols, with the official trustees, the dividends of which are given away in bread . from Parish of Southwick, A History of Hampshire (pub 1908) www.british-history.ac.uk

Dr Soper of Ashburton, Devon, narrates in the Lancet, 1829 & 30, a difference of opinion about the sex of a malformed child, the parents named the it Matthew, but Dr Soper pronounced it a girl. (He sent a sketch) : [a Dr John Soper (c1797-c1849) d.Ashburton]

Elioeoni Soper, Druggist, Old Town St, Plymouth ; from Thomas's Directory for 1836 (still there in 1847)

John Soaper of Southwick, d.25 Apr age 73, 'much respected for the integrety & kindness of his character, 'Hampshire Telegraph' (pub Portsmouth 1 May) 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk
: George Soaper surgeon [perhaps assume 'John'] died at Southwick at an advanced age [N of Portsmouth], 'Jackson's Oxford Journal' 6 May 1837, from newspapers.bl.uk

Dr Soper attended Miss Cockey, her family did not know what the matter was with her, but she gave birth while the doctor was there. Case of breach of contract over her engagement : from The Times 2 Aug 1839 55/761n

John Soper Streeter Icones Obstetric�: by MOREAU, Francois Joseph, 60 plates illustratrate the art & science of midwifery; edited, with practical observations & tables, by J T Streeter. [John Soper Streeter] : pub London, 1842 British Library & National Archives

Elioenai Soper of Old Town Street, Plymouth, druggist with a 48 year lease on land, 1844 see summary below

Moubray Hilton Souper Surgeon in the Royal Marine Brigade in the Service of the Queen of Portugal of Oporto , Portugal : His will of 9 Jan 1844. Online Document PROB 11/1992 : National Archives : [a Mowbray Charles Souper b.Uxbridge 1839 & several other children]

John Soper, esq MD, (c1797-1849) died age 52 at Ashburton, Dev, 6 Feb : from 'A Monthly Record of the Medical Sciences' 1849 google book
: [perhaps the John who qualified Scotland 1820]
- Sarah Elizabeth Soper (1830-1866) only child; bpt.1 Jun 1830 Ashburton : died age 36 unm, see below]
: 1833 of Ashburton, Dr Soper's Case of Monstrosity, 6m earlier he attended Mrs I who'd given birth to baby with tumours, part male & female; Lancet c12 Mar 1833
: [of Ashburton, subscribed to 'A Topographical Dictionary of England', 1833]
: 1835 Dr Soper, 1 of 37 stewards at dinner in honor of Sir J B Yarde Buller at Ashburton 14 Feb; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 12 Feb 1835, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
: 1839 Dr Soper, I attend Miss Cockney (27 a vicars dau), the family was not aware what was happening & was there when a baby was born, with no preparation. The father, a solicitor, to pay �1,000 for breach of marriage promise; in 'The Examiner' (pub.Lon) 4 Aug 1839
: '41cen John 43, Susanna 45-9, Sarah Eliz 11 at Ashburton (John not b.Dev)
: 1841 J Soper esq MD of Ashburton, subscribed to 'Tales of the Moor' Vol 2 by Josias Homley, pub Newton Abbot 1841
: 1845 Dr Soper attended a meeting at Ashburton to adopt measures to form a railway to Newton Abbot Station of S Devon Railway; 1845
: 1848 Dr Soper, at Ashburton Ball, Bate's Golden Lion Hotel. Dancing commenced 9pm; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 14 Dec 1848
: 1849 Dr John Soper, death, Ashburton; over last 20y involved in Merchants Club. A principle lecturer in Farmers Club. Constant study endeavouring to enlighten his brother townsmen on astronomy, chemistry, agriculture ext. Seized with apoplexy 7w ago at 1st meet of Western Providence Soc, St Laurence Chapel. Seized again Tue last while in his garden, his chief delight & died a few hours later. Funeral prev Tue at St Andrews. The Ashburton Ball he was to attend postponed ; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 15 Feb 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan]
: 1849 Dr J Soper's health proposed in a highly complimentary speech at Asburton Farmer's Club at London Inn Assembly Rooms for most valuable information he gave the society's members in lectures over the past year. Dr Soper responded with great eloquence, urging the agriculturalists to attend punctually. Dr Soper also at the 2nd Ball at Golden Lion Inn, (inc 2 Lords & 2 Sirs); in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 11 Jan 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk] : [Soper had stroke 3 weeks earlier]
: 1849 John Soper esq MD, (c1797-1849) died at Ashburton, Dev age 52, 6 Feb 1849: from 'A Monthly Record of the Medical Sciences' google book]
: 1849 Dr John Soper died; over last 20y involved in Merchants Club. A principle lecturer in Farmers Club, he undertook constant study to endeavouring to enlighten his brother townsmen on astronomy, chemistry, agriculture ext. Seized with apoplexy 7w ago at 1st meet of Western Providence Soc, St Laurence Chapel. Seized again Tue last in his garden (his chief delight) & died a few hours later. Funeral prev Tue at St Andrews. The Ashburton Ball he was to attend postponed ; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' Thur 15 Feb 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : [d.Jan>Mar Newton Abbott]
: [?connection to Walter Soper Gervais (1828-1892) of Ashburton, his mother Elizabeth ne Soper] : [a Dr Soper of Ashburton 1829]
: '51cen Susanna 55 widowed house holder, proprietor at West St, Ashburton (Newton Abbot), Dev, b.Ashburton; Sarah Elizabeth 21unm b.Bovey Tracy, Dev; with house servants Susanna Andrews 23 b.Buckland & Sarah Bickham b.Ashburton scan
: 1852 Susan Soper (c1794-1852) d.23 Aug 1852 at Ashburton, age 58, relict of John Soper esq surgeon, 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post', 26 Aug, from newspapers.bl.uk: [Susanna d.Jul>Sep 1852 Newton Abbott bmd dist]
: 1855 Miss Soper [assume only child Sarah] sold lge West St house 1855, [& move to London?], Dining & drawing rooms, 2 kitchens, butlers pantry, laundry, wine & coal cellars, 4 lge beds & 2 dressing rooms; 5 2nd floor bedrooms & attic over. Yard behind (exits Kingsbridge Ln) coach house & stable & walled garden with fruit trees in 'Bloggishay' or Church Ln
: 1865 Sarah E Soper (c1829-1866) private patient from 24 Nov 1865 at Brandenburgh House, institution, [Hammersmith], died there [8m later] 22 Jun 1866; from Lunacy Patients Admission Registers scan
: 1866 dau Sarah Elizabeth Soper d.22 Jun 1866 age 36 of only child of John Soper MD of Ashburton; from Medical News 30 Jun & 'The Pall Mall Gazette' (pub.Lon), 27 Jun from newspapers.bl.uk
: 1866 Sarah Elizabeth d.22 Jun 1866, spinster of 1 St Mary's Terrace, Queens Rd, Peckham, Sy; will proved Principle Registry 20 Dec 1866 to Edward Smith Manico, merchant of Priory Lodge, Hoe St, Walthamstow, Ex; one of the executors; estate under �6,000 formerly of St Mary's Terrace, [?Maida Vale, W2] but late of Brandenburgh House, nr Broadway Hammersmith; from Probate Calender, scan : [?a Sarah E Soper (c1829-1866) d.Apr>Jun, Kensington, age 37] : [Edward Smith Manico started the Royal Paper Mills 1850s to 1886. It was taken over by Manico�s manager William Brown source]

G J Soper Secretary of Metropolitan Eye & Ear Infirmary 25 Sackville St; established 1838; From charity directory 1850. source : [??perhaps George John Soper snr & jnr, builders 1846]

Mr Soper Williams, surgeon. witness at inquest of Jeal Denny 20 of Doddinghurst, nr.Brentwood, Essex. I found eyes distended, tongue protruding & throat lacerated where 2 cords had been tied. Teeth marks on hand, abrasion of elbow & chest bruises as if hit or kneeled on. A 9 month male foetus was alive when the mother died. Thomas Drory her parents lodger & the apparent father accused. Paper helpfully adds Miss Denny 'of humble circumstances with a remarkably fine figure...'; in 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 15 Oct 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : scan [no sign of a Soper Williams or a Dr Soper in Essex]

John Soper, a veterinary surgeon sold his mare to Colonel Woolridge, canvassing for Sir Thomas Herbert. Woolridge paid �35, but then returned to London & Soper carried on using the horse. Soper swore this had no influence of his vote. A witness valued the mare at �7. Herbert, now Lord of the Admiralty, said he paid his canvassers $500 expences. He had few contacts with Dartmouth, a friend suggested it to get into Parliament : Dartmouth Election Committee : from The Times 12 Apr 1853 103/746n

Walter Soper Jervais. of Ashburton passed medical degree in Marischal College on 12 or 13 Apr, 'The Aberdeen Journal, Scotland', 20 Apr 1853, from newspapers.bl.uk
: Walter Soper Jervis, of Ashburton, Dev, passed exams to be admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons : from The Times 17 May 1854 109/746n recieved Apothecaries Hall certificate to practice medicine 14 June 110/746n

Elioeoni Soper (c1798-?) chemist

Elioenai/Elioenae/Elioeoni Soper bpt.18 Jul 1798 at Bethesda Independent Chapel Truro, Cornwall & same date at Corpus Christi Independent Calvanist Chapel, Union Place Stonehouse, Dev : Presume parents George & Grace, see book about Grace (1766-1830) : [family non-conformists; 7 Elioenae s in Old Testament - means "my eyes face Jehovah"]

parents George Soper m.Grace Minor Isabell 1 Feb 1794 at St Austell, Con

: 1829 Mr Soper druggist & Mr Wallace rented & occupied 2 distinct large tenements at Old Town St, Plymouth; a house & shop close to the New Market Place for sale at Royal Hotel, Plymouth 11 Jun; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 28 May 1829, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1832 Rowe & Soper of Plymouth stockist of celebrated 'Salutory Detersive Drops', eradicates the scorbutic habit; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 19 Jan 1832, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1833 Elioeoni Soper m. bef.1833 as son, Isabell Hawker Soper b.abt.1833 Plymouth, Dev

: 1835 Mr Soper, of Plymouth, stocks bottles of Effervesant Cheltenham Salts, made from Montpellier Spas; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 25 Jun 1835, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1836 Elioeoni Soper, druggist, Old Town Street, Plymouth 1836; from Thomas's Directory for 1836

: 1838 E Soper of Plymouth selling Perry's VD purifying pills? For both sexes & gonorrhea & diseases of urinary passage (without using that deadly poison, Mercury), send letter for advice to Perry & Co, Liverpool with usual 1 guinea fee; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' (pub.Dev) 20 Sep 1838, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1839 Eli Soper request in 1838, to 'Plymouth Commissioners for Paving, Lighting & Watching', that a lamp be placed in Copperhouse Lane : Plymouth & W.Devon Record Office ref 1609/1546 www.a2a

: 1839 Soper of Plymouth sells Costello's Collyrium or Royal Eye Ointment; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 6 Jun 1839, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1839 Eliaenai Soper rem.Sarah Trickey, Plymouth Apr>Jun 1839 . [his 2nd marriage]
- Isabell Hawker Soper (c1833-1907) b.Plymouth, surgeon of Plymouth & Wales m.Jane Eleanor Levick, 1860 biog [(his grmother Grace Isabell was evangelised by Rev Robert Hawker 1812) Papers connect family to Reverend John Glanville Hawker (1795-1835) a2a]
- Mary Elizabeth Croad Soper b.c1834 Plymouth; ('81 47unm with step mother Sarah 84); m.Charles Frederick Crewes Jan>Mar 1890 Plymouth; Mary E C Crewes d.Jan>Mar 1922, age 88, Plymouth
- Susan Selina Soper b.Apr>Jun 1840 Plymouth; '51cen 'Selina'; 1891 'Susanna'?; m.James Forte Watson Jul>Sep 1890 [age 50, just after sister] & d.Apr>Jun 1897 Plymouth, age 57 [a James Forte/Fort Watson [s?] m.1855 Bradford, Yorks; lecturing as lay member of C of E 1859; ; '61cen 29 with wife Martha, in Burley Yorks; 1869 Sec to C of E Temperance Soc; 1876, C of E Scripture reader, on trial York Assizes for defrauding the... source; m.1877 London & d.Jan>Mar 1906 Barnstable age 72 ]

: 1841 Soper & Co Plymouth amongst medicine venders selling 'Framptons Pill of Health', for liver complaints; in 'Cornwall Royal Gazette' 12 Feb 1841, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1841 Elionie Soper & Sarah Soper both 40-4, chemist in Old Town St, Plymouth, St Andrew, Dev '41 census : Isabell Soper 8 : Mary Soper 7 & Susan Soper 1 : Susanna Trisby 84 [relation if m.Trickey?] (all but Eleinie b.Devon excluding Elenie) : 3 chemist apprentices 16-20 : 2 servants 19 & 25 scan

: 1842 Eli Soper chemist, Old Town St, Plymouth an agent for Capt Piddings Celebrated Teas; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 27 Oct 1842, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1844 Elioenai Soper of Old Town St, Plymouth, druggist. 1 of 12 people with a 48 year lease on land, at Mays Cross, Plymouth from Rev James Babb of North St, Plymouth, clerk. Babb must erect a tenement with a domestic chapel attached (as designed by James Howell Ball) within the first year, rent �1 pa : 1844. [also the same 12 people] Reconveyance this land 'Portland Villas' from William Flamank of Newton Abbot, gentleman, for 10s in 1850 : The buildings may have been Portland Villas & Portland Chapel : Plymouth & West Devon Record Office ref 912/3

: 1844 E Soper Chemist, Old Town, Plymouth, in list of local agents for "Capt Pidding's Howqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder" green China tea; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 4 Apr 1844, from newspapers.bl.uk
: Soper of Plymouth , one of the agents for Cuff's Foot Rot Powder, for sheep; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 2 May 1844
: Soper, of Plymouth, stocks 'Farmer's Friend' the only medicine that cures diseases in sheep & cows; a 3s bottle cures 30 lambs or 9 calves; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 16 Jan 1845 : scan
: Soper, of Plymouth, stocks 'Fords Pectorial Balsam', cures all diseases of chest & lungs; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 6 Nov 1845 : scan
: Eli Soper of Plymouth stocks 'Butlers Vermin & Insect Killer', 3d, 6d & 1s packets; in 'Berrows Worcester Journal' (pub.) 20 Aug 1846, scan
: Soper of Plymouth stocks 'Lamberts Asthmatic Balsam', cures asthma, colds, coughs & shortness of breath; 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 18 Feb 1847, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : [& adverts to 1852]

: 1847 Elioeoni Soper a chemist & druggist, of 55 Old Town St, Plymouth : from Williams's Commercial Directory 1847 for Devonport, Plymouth, & Stonehouse : from a British Jewery Source : [see Elioenai Soper leased a tennement in 1844, which shared a private chapel. (Built by a priest, using a church architect, so not Jewish; His mother burnt her good clothes on becoming a Wesleyan at 18 & wouldn't use mirrors). Elioeoni bapt in a Calvanist Chapel. Elioeoni is a biblical name but can't tell if it's only Jewish, but in 1841 a Mary A Soper was cook to a Jewish Plymouth goldsmith]

: 1849 Soper & Co, Plymouth & Soper of Devonport in list of stockists for 'Howards Succedaneum' for filling decayed teeth; advert; in 'Royal Cornwall Gazette' 16 Mar 1849, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1850 Soper, of Plymouth on list of stockists of 'Dr Scotts Bilious & Liver Pills', cures headache; in 'Bristol Mercury' 30 Mar 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1850 Soper, I of 4 Plymouth chemists, stocking 'Sir Hutton Cooper's Cough Lozenges', for colds, influenza & lung affections; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 31 Oct 1850, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan

: 1850 Mr Elioenai Soper at Bellair St, Plymouth, 1850 Devon Directory

: 1851 Soper of Plymouth stocks 'Widow Welches Pills, for female complaints, head-ache, indegestion consumption & lowness of spirits; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 9 Jan 1851, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan
stocks 'Fords Pectoral Balsan of Horehound', for lungs; advert in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 2 Jan 1851; scan
stocks 'Sir Hutton Coopers Expectorant Cough Lozenges'; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 30 Jan 1851; scan

: 1851 Eli Soper 52 a retired chemist b.St Austle, Cornwall in 1851 census, at Belair St, Belair Cottage, Plymouth; wife Sarah Soper 54; Isabell Soper 17 b.Plymouth medical student; Mary Soper 17 & Selina Soper 10 student at home; & sister Elizabeth Soper 50unm, an lady; Mary Ann Pendy 33 a widowed servant

: 1852 Mr Eli Soper, Belair Cottage, Regent St, Plymouth in �Nobility & Gentry� Slater�s Directory for Devon 1852-3

: 1852 Elanixi Soper had a garden that was to the south of a plot being conveyanced: 1852 : Plymouth & W.Devon Record Office - ref. 862/105 www.a2a

: 1854 Eliana Soper amongst 12 miners & merchants of Plymouth, Devon, took to Cornwall's Stannary Court 6 Apr 1854, John Dale, miner & managing agent of Charlestown United Mines, St Austell, of St Stephens, Branwell : Cornwall Records Office

: 1854 Eli�nai Soper amongst 11 miners & merchants of Plymouth took to Cornwall's Stannary Court, 16 Sep 1854, Silas Hiscutt Liddell, miner & managing agent of Bodmin United Mines, Lanivet, [& apperenty won?] : Cornwall Records Office

: 1854 Elianai Soper, of Plymouth, gent, with clerk Rev John Ball of Berks, 22 Dec 1854, conveyence of North Tregeare, Tresmeer, Cornwall for �815 (to?) Robert Hawker Ball of Plymouth, chemist, Richard DeChamp Ball of Heckfield, Hants, surgeon, Mary Glanville Hodson Ball of Plymouth, James & Samuel Ball of Plymouth, gents , spinster : Others mentioned John Nicholas Bennett of Plymouth, gent, Digory Chapman of Treneglos, yeoman, John Dingley of Launceston, gent : Cornwall Record Office, Cornwall Deeds : www.a2a : ref X920/16 : [assume 'Hawker' links to his son Isabell Hawker Soper]

: 1856 E Soper 1 of 10 partners in a Bidford & Plymouth gunpowder manufacturer partnership, Jane G Fox leaving it; in 'Morning Post' 3 Dec 1856, from news.bl.uk; scan

; 1856 Elioenai Soper of Plymouth. (signed �Eli Soper�) & Adams (draper), Dabb (warehouseman), Ellery (barrister), Picken Wine merc), Tyeth Gent) all of Plymouth, Soady of E.Stonehouse, Tregaskis (of Perren) & Fox (widow) partners in "Plymouth & Dartmoor Gunpowder Company�, Lidford, Plymouth, Dev. manufacturing gunpowder : Jane Gurney Fox will leave the partnership. 28 Oct 1856. (London Gazette 2 Dec)

: 1860 Eli Soper amongst 10 merchants of Plymouth, Dev, took to Cornwall's Stannary Court, 15 Mar 1860 Thomas Simmons, principal agent of Colbriggan [mine], Roche [& won, non-payment, sale of machinery & reference to bankruptcy of Henry Burgess : Cornwall Records Office

: 1860 Eli Soper amongst 10 merchants of Plymouth, Devon took to Cornwall's Stannary Court 15 Mar 1860 Henry B Grose, principal agent of Tremoor Consols, Lanivent : Cornwall Records Office

: 1861 Eli 62 retired chemist & druggist at Belair St, Belair House, Plymouth '61cen; b.St Austle, Cornwall; wife Sarah 64 b.Plympton, St Mary; Mary E C 27 & Susan S 21 both b.Plymouth; sister Sophia E 60 b.St Austel; also visiter Louisa Levick 24 b.Wolverhampton, Staffs, all unm; servants Mary Ann Purdy 43 widow & Harriet Hicks 14 both b.Plymouth scan [4 families now at Belair Cottage] : [no sign of son, Dr Isabell 27 & new wife '61cen]

: 1865 b>Elioenai Soper of Plymouth, gent; Isabell Soper of [..], Wales, surgeon [son]; Mary Elizabeth Croad Soper of Plymouth, spinster [unm dau]; Thomas Hawker of Menheniot, Cornwall, gent & Richard Dechamp Ball of Hickfield, Hants, surgeon ; Anna Baldy of Islington, London, widow; These 6 had transaction with John Nicholas Bennett of Plymouth, gent : 1865 ; Copy bond of indemnity for �1200. Pews in Eldad Chapel & other property outlined in recited deeds of settlement & trust. Plymouth & W.Devon Record Office ref 2131/11 www.a2a : [a John Hawker & Thomas Soper of Ashburton shared property transaction, Charleton, Dev 1828] : [Hawker a relation?, as Eli's gr.son's middle name Hawker (mother Grace wrote to preacher Dr Robert Hawker about her sins 1827, Grace's biog)]

: 1866 Elioenai Soper of Plymouth, 31 Jan 1866 a will in Oswyn Murray collection

: 1868 Eli Soper of Belair, of list of gentlemen; Plymouth disenters who formerly voted liberal, complaining about attack on Protestantism & Mr Gladstone's dangerous resolusions; 20 Sep 1868 scan

: 1868 perhaps? the E Soper [or R Soper?] at 3pm banquet following opening of Brixham railway with a special train leaving Newton to Brixham 1pm; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 8 Jan 1868; scan : [?perhaps Elioenai (c1798-1870) a Plymouth chemist see medical Sopers ]

: 1868 Eli Soper of Belair House, Belair St, signed bill, posted up throughout Plymouth last week. Dissenters, previously voted Liberal, protesting of the present attack on Protestantism. Mr Gladstone's dangerous plans to disestablish the Irish Church, so making room for Popish ascendancy. paper adds may the Dissenters of Wales follow the noble example of their more intellegent bretheren in England; in 'North Wales Chronicle' (pub.Bangor), 26 Sep 1868, from news.bl.uk; scan
: Eli Soper, Joseph Hillyer of Devon Place & Rev Babb of Portland Chapel & Rev Charles Hemington dissenters signed handbill sent through post to each elector.[1,547 in Totherham dist] 'from Dissenting Ministers' against an Irish Bill; Critical article 'Who are they'; Elli not a minister but a follower of Babbs ex C of E curate, 'an eccentric person silenced by his Bishop' who set up his own place with small congregation; Hemington a Baptist preacher & Hillyer is member of C of E; in 'Sheffield & Rotherham Independent' 31 Oct 1868; scan

: 1871 Dr I H Soper esq, presented 120 guineas from the working men & inhabitants of Blaina, in decorated school room Blaina; starting with choir & piano & harp music. he lived amongst them for 16y & visited house to house with urbane kindness; �134 collected; �70 for silver salver & cup + �70 collected in the room. Address in English & Welsh (mentioning deep gloom when iron works shut 1868-9); Mr Soper regretted his inability to express his feelings as he could wish [ill?-he d.6w later]; Monmouthshire Merlin 28 Mar 1871 scan

: 1870 Elioenai Soper d.Apr>Jun 1870, Plymouth, Dev, age 71
: Elioenai Soper of Plymouth; Exeter; d.10 May 1870, died at Belair Cottage, Regent St, Plymouth; Will proved 18 Jun 1870 to Sarah Soper of Belair Cottage, widowed wife & Isabell Hawker Soper of Blaina, nr.Newport, Monmouthshire, son, the 2 executors; estate under �3,000; from Probate Calender, scan : [Elioenai Soper (c1799-1870) d.Apr>Jun 1870, Plymouth, Devon, age 71]

'71cen Sarah head widowed annuitant age 74 (half deaf), at The Cottage, Bellair St, Charles, Plymouth; b.Plympton; Mary C 37unm annuitant, b.Plymouth; & Elizabeth 70unm annuitant (half blind), b.St Austell, Cornwall, also servant Ester Booth 19 unm b.Prince Town scan : [Eliz not vis '81cen/bmd]

'81cen Sarah 84 widowed annuitant, head at 43 North St, Plymouth Charles The Martyr; Mary 47 unm step dau, annuitant; both b.Plymouth : [Mary not vis '91cen]

: 1883 Sarah Soper (c1797-1883) d.Jan>Mar 1883, Plymouth, Dev, age 86
: 1886 sister? a Sophia Elizabeth Soper (c1800-1886) d.Oct>Dec 1886, Plymouth, Devon, age 86

1890 : dau Mary Elizabeth Croad Soper (c1834-1922) m.Charles Frederick Crewes Jan>Mar 1890 Plymouth;
1890 : dau Susan Selina Soper (1840-1897) m.James Forte Watson Jul>Sep 1890 Plymouth

Walter Soper Gervis (1828-1892) MD of Ashburton, Dev

Born 21 Jul 1828 at Ashburton, Devon, [?b.Apr>Jun 1827 Tiverton, Dev?] to George Gervis LAH FRCS (1799-1854) a surgeon of Ashburton (igi says surveyor of Newton Abbot - specualte Eliz's father?); & Elizabeth Soper who m.21 Sept 1825 at Ashburton: from igi & family tree

[parents] Miss Soper only dau of Walter Soper esq, m.G Gervais surgeon at Ashburton, Dev, both of Ashburton, married this morning, 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post', 22 Sep 1825 : scan, from newspapers.bl.uk (& The New monthly magazine pub.1 Nov a Google Books snippet) : [?a Walter Soper m.15 Jun &/or 1 Nov 1804 at Buckfastleigh, Dev? (igi)]

sisters Elizabeth Soper Gervais (1830-1926) [see below] & Lavinia Gervais (1832-1899) ; from family tree : [both spinsters & shareholders in a bank 1863] : [Elizabeth d.Oct>Dec 1926, age 97]

: 1853 Walter Soper Jervais. of Ashburton passed medical degree in Marischal College on 12 or 13 Apr, 'The Aberdeen Journal, Scotland', 20 Apr 1853, from newspapers.bl.uk

: 1854 Walter Soper Gervais MD Aberdeen, MRCS Eng; The death of Dr Walter Soper Gervais of Ashburton which occurred on 3 Jan, deprives the town of a familiar figure & an indefatigable worker in all forward movements in the town. As a medical practitioner of about 40 years standing he had formed a large practice, which he commenced at the age of 23 as partner with the late Dr Bean. He obtained his MD degree at Mariscal College, Aberdeen in 1854 & MRCS Eng in the same year. A fellow of the Geological Society & life member of the British Association, the annual meetings of which he generally attended. He was a Physician to the Ashburton & Buckfastleigh Cottage Hospital & Medical Officer to the 4th District of the Newton Abbott Union. He took an active part in the local volunteer movement, of which he became Surgeon Major & was warmly interested in Freemasonary : from Brit Med Journal

: 1854 Walter Soper Gervais of Tiverton won 1st Prize in Midwifery Classes at Marischal College & University, Aberdeen; in 'Aberdeen Journal' 12 Apr 1854, from news.bl.uk : scan

: 1854 Walter Soper Gervis passed examination in science & practice of Medicine & received certificate to practice 15 Jun 1854 : from The Lancet 1854 Google Books snippet

: 1854 Walter Soper Jervis, of Ashburton, Devon, passed exams to be admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons : from The Times 17 May 1854 109/746n recieved Apothecaries Hall certificate to practice medicine 14 June 110/746n

: 1854 Walter Soper Gervais of Devon on list of appointees of 'Doctor of Medicine'; Association Medical Journal, May 1854
Walter Soper Gervais of Ashburton, Devon on pass list of 'Royal College of Surgeons'; Assoc Medical Journal, June 1854
Walter Soper Gervais of Ashburton on list of Apothecaries Hall 'Pass List'; Assoc Medical Journal, July 1854

: 1859 Walter Soper Gervais of Ashburton, Dev : MD Marisch. Coll, Univ Aberd 1854, Mem R Coll Surg Eng, 1854; Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1854 : On Medical Register 1 Jan 1859; Google Books

: 1860 Walter Soper Gervis MD to be Honorary Assistant Surgeon of 9th Devon Rifle Volunteers, 26 Apr 1860; Bulletins & Other Intelligence; from Google Books & 'Gervis' in London Gazette 25 May; Volunteer Corps Commissions from London Gazette; in 'Morning Post' 28 May; scan

: 1860 Walter Soper Gervais. MD to be Hon Ass Surgeon of 11th Devon Rifle Volunteers, Commissions by the Lord Lieut of Devon, 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post', 30 May 1860, from newspapers.bl.uk

: 1862 Walter Soper Gervis bookplates on The Art Journal 1862-90, sold by bearnes.co.uk

: 1863 Walter Soper Gervis surgeon, Elizabeth Gervais widow, Elizabeth Soper Gervais & Lavinia Gervais, both spinsters, all of Ashburton, Dev, 4 connected shareholdings in West of England & South Wales Bank; in 'Bristol Mercury' 21 Feb 1863, from newspapers.bl.uk : scan : Same 4 names repeated in Feb 1866, 67 & 72 shareholders list scan

: 1864 Walter Soper Gervis to be Surgeon. 4th Administrative Battalion. Devon Rifle Volunteers. A Commission signed by Lord Lieutenant of Devon, 21 Nov 1864. (London Gazette 6 Dec) & from Morning Post; scan

: 1865 Walter Soper Gervais, a surgeon at Ashburton, Dev, visited Mrs Spraque, her servant Jane & Mrs Chalker who were vomiting saying it was the rabbit pie, he stayed overnight during which Mr Chalker collapse unconscious (all survived). He diagnosed poisoning & kept sample of vomit & pie. Dr Spraque 24 & wife shared their Ashburton house. Dr Spraque left that morning before the 4 ate the pie. He previously threatening poison, Aropine poison was found in Spraque's surgery & in the pie. Spraque sent for jury trial on �1,000 bail : from The Times 27 July 1865 159/746n; from 'Daily News' (pub.Lon),' 26 Jul 1865, from news.bl.uk; scan; Found not guilty 3 Aug scan [still in practice 1890 : died 1892?]

: 1867 Walter Soper Gervis, a trustee of Ashburton School 1867; 1890

: 1870 Walter Soper Gervis Esq. MD of West St, Ashburton, Dev : Morris Commercial Directory 1870

: 1881 Walter Gervis 54 in '81cen, a Doctor of Medicine at West St, Tiverton (b.Tiverton), gentlewomen sisters Elizabeth S Gervais 51 & Lavinia Gervais 49 both b.Teignmouth, Dev & servant Mary A Clark 30

: 1886 Walter Soper Gervis m.Jane Parnell Stear (1857-1892) Apr-Jun 1886 Newton Abbot BMD district (b.at Dean Prior, Dev : died Jan>Mar)

: 1890 W Soper Gervis, a surgeon, West St, Ashburton? 1890 Whites Directory : Ancestry.com : [see Walter Soper Gervais 1865]

: 1892 Died Jan>Mar 1892 age 64 at Newton Abbot BMD district : d.3 Jan 1892 Ashburton : source

: 1892 Walter Soper Gervis [Medical practitioner] Obituary notice by W Harpley, Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 24, 1892 pp.42-43

2nd Obituary Notice by Rev Harpley;
Walter Soper Gervis, a native of Ashburton, followed in father�s footsteps as an MD; Commenced practice aged 23, over 40y ago with Dr Bean, their partnership of short duration & Dr Gervis practised, aided by assistants until some 10y ago, when the late Dr Fraser joined him, Dr Lewis Brown succeeded less than 2y ago. A parish doctor; Medical officer to the Rational Sick & Burial Association; Medical officers of Loyal Ashburton Lodge of Oddfellows, & on staff of the Cottage Hospital, he will be sorely missed. Dr Gervis a most active townsman & prominent member of society; Churchwarden & trustee of church & parish lands, trustee & treasurer of many charities, inc Bickham's; Governor of the Grammar School; Chairman of the Sanitary Committee; Chairman of Conservative Committee; Vice-president of the Constitutional Club, & past president of the Institute. A very active part Freemason; founder of Lodge Ashburton, Nr2,189, (master 1889-90) & at his death, Provincial GSD & M of Royal Arch at Newton; source [from a book by "Devon Association"]

: 1911 Elizabeth Soper Gervis 80unm private means in 9 rooms at 5 Rocke Villa, Exmouth '11cen; b.Teignmouth, Dev; living with cousin Arthur Baldwin 62 retired ass sec of the China inland mission b.Brighton, Sx & wife Reperhi? Baldwin 76 {m.26y no births} b.Ashburton, Dev, also cook Annie Bowditch 21unm b.Dev & housemaid Lily Kingman 19 b.Surrey scan

: 1926 sister Elizabeth Soper Gervis spinster of 2 Point Terrace, Exmouth, Dev (d.18 Oct 1926) will proven & 2 codicils by executors Stephen William Britain & Frederick Alfred Stephenson. Claims by 21 Jan 1927 (London Gazette 19 Nov) : [Elizabeth S Gervis death registered Oct>Dec 1926, age 97 St Thomas, Dev district bdm]

Isabell Hawker Soper (c1833-1907) Surgeon, son of Elioenae Soper above

connection; a George Isabell Soper (1796-1855) newspaper publisher of Plymouth, uncle : b.29 Apr Truro, Dev : d.Shoreditch, Lon [GIS's mother & IHS's grandmother Grace nee Isabell]

: 1833 Isabell Soper b.1833 Plymouth to Elioenae Soper & Sarah who m.1839

: 1841 Isabell Soper 8 in 1841 Plymouth census, with parents Elenie & Sarah Soper, chemist (40-44) : Mary Soper 7 & Susan Soper 1 : Susanna Trisby 84 (all b.Devon excluding Elenie) : 3 chemist apprentices 16-20 : 2 servants 19 & 25 [Isabell recorded as a girl, poor lad]

: 1851 Isabell Soper 17 b.Plymouth, a medical student living with father Eli Soper 52 a retired chemist b.St Austell, Cornwall in 1851 Plymouth census, at Belair St, Belair Cottage; wife Sarah Soper 54 domestic; Mary Soper 17 domestic & Selina Soper 10 scholar at home all b.Plymouth: & sister Elizabeth Soper 50, an unmarried 'Lady' b.St Austell, Cornwall : Maryann Pendy 33 servant, widow b.Plymouth : [Isabell crossed out with '?' added - more gender confusion?]

: 1855 J Hawker Soper of Blaina Ironworks, Newport, Monmouthshire : Mem R Coll Surg Eng, 1855; On Medical Register 1 Jan 1850 : from The Medical Register, pub.1864 : [I H Soper & J H Soper seem interchangable below; why?]

: 1855 Isabell Hawker Soper of Plymouth on list having gained diploma admitted members of the Royal College of Surgeons; in 'Daily News' 23 Apr 1855, from news.bl.uk; scan
: Isabel Hawker Soper of Plymouth, admitted to RCS; from The Times 23 Apr

: 1860 Isabell Hawker Soper m.Jane Eleanor Levick (c1832-70) ['Jenny'*]. m.reg Apr-Jun 1860 Chepstow District, in Glos & Mon, vol.11a, p17 : [*she died when her eldest dau was 9 : d.1870 age 38 : 2nd m.1899]
: Isabell Hawker Soper esq, surgeon, of Blaina, m.Jane Eleanor Levick at Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, 18 Apr 1860 : son of Mr E Soper, Plymouth & 3rd dau of Frederick Levick esq of Shirenewton House & Blaina; from Monmouthshire Merlin 21 Apr scan [Levic helped buy & run Cwm Celyn & Blaina Iron Co 1844, idle '67 when failed to sell, but helped reopened them '69 (he d.'69) scan]

- Florence Eleanor Soper (1861-1957) b.12 Sep in Blaina, S.Wales [b.Oct>Dec Bedwelty bmd district] : [m.1882 Bramwell Booth, Salvation Army leader]
- Lilian Mary Soper b.c1865 Chertsey, Surrey : [?a Lilian Mary Austin b.Apr>Jul 1865 Chertsey] : [visited NZ & Canada, with SA officer; SA's Liet Col Soper visited NZ 1925] d.16 Feb 1942 The Homestead, 19 Crescent East, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Hert source ; [d.Jan>Mar Edmonton]
- Evelyn Mary Soper b.Apr-June 1867 Blaine, Monmouth [Bedwelty bmd] : [d.2 Sep 1914 Hadley Wood, Herts; �6,600 will at]
- Frederick Robert Hawker Soper (1868-1919) b.17 Nov 1868, Blaine (/Aberystwith), Monmouth : [clergyman biog]; father's executor 1908 (estate �29k); d.1919

: 1861 Isabell Soper not vis; or wife in 1861 census
: 1861 J H Soper introduced Blaina lecture to working classes at British school room, about Mr Levick [owner of Blaina ironworks & his f-in-l] who paid �80pa, 3y ago for teacher to hive adult evening classes for 2d pw; after 1st year numbers dwindled to insignificance. 2 Revs urged in Eng & Welsh they 'throw-off the thraldom of ignorance' & they 'listened attentively'; 'Monmouthshire Merlin', 7 Sep 1861 scan

: 1861 H Soper [presumably assisted by an un-named wife?] had a daughter, 2 Sep 1861, Blaina, Monmouthshire : from The Times Sep 17 : 48/211p : [?assume Florence Eleanor Soper (1861-1957) b.12 Sep in Blaina, S.Wales]

: 1861 Mr Soper surgeon of the works, most carefully attended Margaret Jones 8 who played by the boiler fires of Cwm Calyn blast furnaces; her clothes caught fire & she died 4 days later; Monmouthshire Merlin 23 Feb 1861 scan

: 1861 J H Soper, esq's kind & skillful treatment of John Williams 15 employed at Hoskin's Mine, injured by a roof fall above him, he died within 2 hours of removal to is home; Monmouthshire Merlin 18 May 1861 scan

: 1863 H Soper recorded rainfall at 1,100ft elevation at Tredegar (Blaina) Monmouthshire period c1863-65 From British Association for the Advancement of Science report 1865 source : [?assume Isabell Hawker Soper?]

: 1863 Mrs J Hawker Soper & Miss Florence E Soper of Blaina, Monmouthshire; in visitor list for Llandudno, at Latimer House [8 guest rooms filled]; N.Wales Chronicle 26 Sep 1863 scan

: 1865 J H Soper, Member of MRCS : from Saint Bartholomew's Hospital & College Reports pub.1865 Google Books snippet

: 1865 Isabell Soper of [..], Wales, surgeon; Elioenai Soper of Plymouth, gent [father] ; Mary Elizabeth Croad Soper of Plymouth, spinster [unm dau]; Thomas Hawker of Menheniot, Cornwall, gent & Richard Dechamp Ball of Hickfield, Hants, surgeon ; Anna Baldy of Islington, London, widow; These 6 had transaction with John Nicholas Bennett of Plymouth, gent : 1865 ; Copy bond of indemnity for �1200. Pews in Eldad Chapel & other property outlined in recited deeds of settlement & trust. Plymouth & W.Devon Record Office ref 2131/11 www.a2a : [a John Hawker & Thomas Soper of Ashburton shared property transaction, Charleton, Dev 1828]

: 1865 Mr & Mrs Soper at large presentation party for Mr & Mrs Levick at Blaina, when thier works, that employed several 1.000s, had a crisis; 'Monmouthshire Merlin' 9 Sep 1865 scan

: 1865 H Soper observer at rainfall station at Blaina, from c1863, elevation 1,100ft [8 other observers in Monmouthshire]; 'Monmouthshire Merlin' 9 Sep 1865 scan

: 1866 J Soper amongst those whe rendered assistance when 200 dinner was served to the poor of Blaina & 120 sent to people unsable to attend; Monmouthshire Merlin 6 Jan 1866 scan

: 1866 Mr Soper esq Blainau mentioned in Welsh lanquage article; in 'Baner Ac Amserau Cymru' (pub.Denbigh, Wales), 7 Feb 1866, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1866 I H Soper responsible for Blaina from Herman Chapel to Tiler's Arms when parishes of Aberystruth & Bedwellty were divided into 8 districts following cholera epidemic at nearbye Ebbw Vale; Merthyr Telegraph 15 Sep 1866 scan

: 1866 J H Soper Ysw dosbarth Abertyleri ac Aberbig; Glyn Ebbwy [translated as Ysw class Abertillery & Glen Abbey]; in 'Baner Ac Amserau Cymru' (pub.Denbigh, Wales), 3 Oct 1866, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1867 Mr Soper attended funeral of relative [f-i-law] Frederick Levick esq; principle partner in Blaina Iron Works, death at 64 doubtless hastened by anxiety from state of business; Monmouthshire Merlin 16 Nov 1867 scan

: 1868 ?a Mary Soper (c1812-1868) d.Apr>Jun 1868, Bedwellty, Monmouth, age 56 : [long shot... is this Isabell's mother?]
: 1870 J H Soper yr Hwn sydd wedi bomd yn byw yn y gymmydogaeth am lawer o flynyddoedd, ac yn cael ei barchu gan bawb : [www translation; "he drives this who is has been living crookedly the gymmydogaeth about much he years and having you go respect with bawb" (so now we know!) How about He's been resident in the gymmydogaeth for many years & is respected by all?] gymmydogaeth not in www; in 'Baner Ac Amserau Cymru (Denbigh, Wales)' 25 May 1870, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1870 Jane Eleanor Soper d.18 Jun 1870 at Maindee, nr.Newport, Mon age 38, wife of J Hawker Soper of Blaina, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 20 Jun, from newspapers.bl.uk : [d.16 Jun in 'Bristol Mercury']

: 1870 Mrs Soper wife of J H Soper esq, surveyor, Blaina & dau of late Fredwerick Levick esq of Blaina; d.16 Jun 1870 age 38, at Brynderyn Villa, Maindee nr.Newport, residence of her uncle, Thomas Homer esq; bur.21 Jun; procession to churchyard where several hundred assembled; relatives Miss Levick, Frederick Levick, Mrs Levick, Robert Simpson, Mrs Simpson, George Levick, Miss Homer, T Homer, Miss Simpson & 6 of her domestic servants; Church choir, who Mrs Soper too deep interest, sung; She left 4 children; Monmouthshire Merlin 25 Jun scan

: 1870 ?a Dr Soper made a post mortem examination on a 15 year old. Inquiry at Bell Inn, Abertillery. He said he did not think death caused my his doctor's malteatment; in 'Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales),' 9 Apr 1870, from news.bl.uk; scan

Isabell Hawker Soper of Blaina, nr.Newport, Monmouthshire, (& widowed mother) executors of Elioenai Soper 18 Jun 1870 [father]; estate under �3,000; Eli d.10 May 1870

: 1870 Dr Soper attended John Divine 29, smith who'd been drinking & found 2am by the river at Blaina. Police called & he died on being taken to police station. Dr said after post mortom, death from cold, accelerated by want of nourishment; in 'Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales),' 24 Dec 1870, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1871 Isabell H Soper (c1833-?) age 38, b.Plymouth, Dev : a widowed surgeon MRRSMD, 1871 census at The Terrance, Blaina, Aberystruth, Mon; children Lilian M Soper 6 b.Chertsey, Surrey, Evelyn M Soper 4 & Frederick R H Soper 2 both b.Blaine, Monmouth : unm sister Susan S Soper 29 b.Plymouth : unm aunt Elizabeth H Homes 49 b.Wolverhampton, Staffs : also cook 31, nurse 23, housemaid 19 : [who was Homes? ex wife nee Levick?] :
: 1871 eldest dau Florence 9 with widowed grandmother Mary Leveck 64, Lewisham, Kent [see below]
- daughter Evelyn Mary Soper b.Apr-June 1867 Chertsy, Sy; [Bedwelty reg dist]; d.16 Feb 1942 The Homestead, 19 Crescent East, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Hert

: 1871 Dr Soper surgeon of Blaina was presented by the workmen & inhabitants of the district with a massive silver salver & goblets, value 150 guineas, inscribed in Englis & Welsh & a purse containing �33. Workmen returning the kindness experienced during the 2y the works were stopped. Presentation in the crowded school room amid great emthusiasm; in 'Western Mail' 29 Mar 1871, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1871 I Soper on committee of Blaina Highway Board, met at National Schoolroom considering the sanitary conditions at Aberystruth parish, resolved to contract a person to remove the nuisances; in 'Western Mail' 28 Sep 1871, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1872 J Hawker Soper Balina Ironworks, Newport, Momouthshire : 1 Jan 1859 : Mem R Coll Surg, Eng 1855 snippet from Medical Register 1872 [& same 1874] Google Books snippet

: 1873 J H Soper, respected doctormade able addresss to local meeting of 1,000s at Blaenavon, re general strike of Ironworkers Ass against 10% wage reduction. He recomended returning to work & to an arbitration committee; meeting voted to suggest a 5% reduction; Western Mail 11 Jan 1873 scan

1874 Dr Soper presided at presentation to late rector Rev Morgan, with inhabitants of Blaina & Aberystwith parish; Mrs & Misses Soper there; in 'Western Mail' 8 Jun 1874, from news.bl.uk; scan

: 1875 Mr Soper (& Spence, Bladon & Morgan) frequently mentioned to help increase the 2 magistrates in Blaina; It is hoped Hon Lieutenant�s attention will be called; S.Wales News 29 Jun 1895 scan

: 1875 J H Soper took lead in meeting to discuss �650 needed to repair Blaina Church 11 Jun 1875 scan

: 1875 J H Soper appointment, medical officer for the Nantyglo District, salary �120pa; confirmed by Local Government Board, Board of Guardians, Bedwellty; S.Wales Daily News 11 Jun 1875 scan

: 1876 Dr Soper & 17 others on Blaina highway board at Castle Hotel & same day, Soper on the 5 man school board; transfer of Nantygloi & Blaina schools to the board now complete ; Cardiff Times 15 Jan 1876 scan

: 1876 J H Soper, on monthly meeting of Aberystruth School Board, Blaina; Bible to be read, without comment & hymes for 10mins at start of school; Fee 2d pw; N.Wales Chronicle 10 Mar 1876 scan; & I H Soper on new board 20 Mar 1875 acknowledged good, & will avoid religious squabbles scan

: 1876 J H Soper, presided over Grand Juvenile Concert held at The British Schools in aid of Presbyterian Chapel, 200 voice juvenile choir & very long program; S.Wales News 13 May 1876 scan & scan

: 1877 J Soper Hon Sec Gloucestershire Eye Institution, Market Parade, Gloucester : Medical Bibliography for 1877 Google Books snippet

: 1877 Soper & 5 others on Aberystruth School Board, Blaina, agreed to start schools in Nantygloi & Cwm; Teachers' request for holiday increase from 5 to 6 weeks rejected; S.Wales News, 9 Jun 1877 scan

: 1877 Mr J H Soper reappointed medical officer for Blaina & Aberystruth district, for 3y, notice read to the Bedwellty Guardians from Local Government Board sanctioning appointment; previously an annual event; Western Mail 31 Aug 1877 �scan �

: 1877 Mr Soper vaccinated 154 people in Blaina for the Tredagar Board of Guardians (1 of 6 of their districts); Monmouthshire Merlin 28 Sep 1877 scan : Mr J H Soper appointed medical officer for Aberystruth parish �

: 1877 Dr J H Soper amputated leg of 6 year old boy playing when run over by a coal tram at Blaina; Western Mail 20 Nov 1877 �scan

: 1877 I Hawker surgeon, Blains, Cwm-Celyn & Coalbrooke Vale Ironworks, Newport, Monmouth MRCS Eng 1855 (St Barthol.) : from Medical Bibliography, 1877 Google Books snippet -

: 1877 J H Soper 1 of 21 names for Newport, Monmouthshire : Medical Bibliography for 1877 &
J H Soper �20 for Nantygo, Bedwellty, Monmouth pop12,382 : Sanitary Medical Service : Google Books snippet

: 1881 Isabel H Soper, churchman, not elected to Aberystruth school board with 104 votes; the 9 elected averaged 2,000, 8 unsectarians & 1 chuchman; Parish in usual turmoil for 2w as religious special interests vied for votes; Cardiff Times 19 Feb 1881 scan

no sign of Isabell in 1881 census, nor wife, children (exp Lilian), or sister
1881 census Lilian M Soper scholar age 16 boarder at Boarding School, West Hill Windermere, Lewisham, Kent; b.Chertsey, Surrey; 12 pupils 6 servants Principal; Emily Levick* 34unm b.Blaina, Monmouth & her unm sister Louisa 46 [*Lilian's mother, Mary Levick, so presume relations]

Isabell's daughter, Florence Eleanor Soper (1861-1957) b.12 Sept in Blaina, S.Wales. Eldest dau of Dr Isbel Soper & Jenny Soper (nee Levick). 2 sisters & a brother. Her mother died when she was 9, so lived with an aunt until her father, a physician practising in Wales, remarried. Visiting her 2 London aunts, she got involved with the Salvation Army. Married Bramwell Booth (1856-1929), 12 Oct 1882, the son of it's founder, dispite her father's opposition. 'Young, delicate, refined; her remarkable powers of grasp & administration had not been developed. She was typical of the well-educated, rather shrinking & self-conscious girls of English professional classes'. In charge of 'repentant Magdalens' rescue homes. Had 7 children. Died 10 June 1957 ; source & : see sister Mary Soper [died 1885 below]
: '71cen : Florence E Soper 9 b.Aberystruth with widowed grandmother Mary Leveck 64, her 2 unmarried schoolteacher daughters Mary Leveck 42 b.Staffs & Emily Leveck 24 b Aberystruth, Wales, 2 pupils, a cook & maid, at Broughlass? Villa, Lewisham, Kent [parents & siblings at Aberystruth]
: Miss Soper dau of Dr Soper of Monmouth. Her m.to Bramwell Booth celebrated at Congress Hall, H, Soon after 9am a continuous stream of Salvationists streamed up High St, Hackney towards the hall & by 11 the hall was crowded with upwards of 5,000 persons..... The bride, a young lady of decidedly prepossessing appearance wore a tight fitting silk dress & on her right brest wore the Salvation Army badge & a few wite flowers in her bosom, in 'Aberdeen Weekly Journal' 13 Oct 1882, from newspapers.bl.uk
: '91cen : Florence Eleanor Bramwell Booth 29 with husband William 35, at 55 West Crescent, Beech Hill Estate, Enfield : 4 children Catherine B, 7 : Mary B, 5 : Florence M B, 3 all b.Stamford Hill, London : Bernard B, 1 b.Enfield, Lon : also brother Frederick R H Soper 22 an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxon. b.Blaina, Monmouthshire
: They had 7 children, their SA careers listed p.74 here source their 2nd son Ballington Booth b. Brighouse 1857 formed "The Volunteers of America" & had to kleave the the SA 'in much lamented circumstances'
: Florence Eleanor Soper Booth, widow of Gen. Bramwell Booth, 2nd general of the Salvation Army, died today at her home in Finchampstead, Berks. 95 years old. 1957 NY Times article

: 1884 Mr Soper appointed as medical officer of Blaina & Aberystruth district; 28 Jun 1884; Local Government Bpard recommending separation of Abertillery dis trict as it appeared to them that it could not be habitually attended to by Dr Soper 6 Sep 1884 �

: 1885 Dr J H Soper of Blaina & his assistant Dr James Bolger gave evidence of bruises in assault case; S.Wales Echo 29 May 1885 scan�

: 1885 Isabell Hawker Soper's [2nd?] dearly beloved wife Mary Soper died 11 Apr 1885, at The Terrace, Blaina, Monmouthshire, dau of the late Frederick Levick JP from The Times 15 Apr & 'Pall Mall Gazette' 16 Apr [Frederick Levick (c1804-?) in '61cen, b.London, JP in Shire Newton, Monmouth with wife & unm dau Mary Levick (c1829-?) 32 b.Wolverhampton & 7 servants : A relation? in 1871 census.. Frederick Levick (c1837-?) b.Wolverhampton, a JP & ironmaster 8 houses away from the Sopers at Blaina House, Aberystruth, wife & 6 children 7-1 b.Blaina (by '81 a steel broker in London)] : [son Frederick a rector biog]

: 1886 J H Soper esq of Blaina; British Medical Journal; Jan 1886 scan

: 1886 Dr I H Soper returning officer for Blaina & Nantyglo local board elections given vote of thanks for the admirable manner in which he conducted the election; Weekly Mail 20 Mar 1886 scan

: 1887 Mr Soper at a Blaina meeting to arrange a Sunday dinner for 800 paupers of Nantyglo & Blaina to celebrate Queens Jubilee; Soper suggested fireworks & other amusements not normally seen at Blaina. �27 pledged there & Soper suggested a paid subscription collector; Western Mail 19 May 1887 scan.�Roast beef, plum pudding & beer for 500 at Market Hall, 1pm after thanks-giving service; sports & amusements followed S.Wales News 22 Jun 1887. The committee (inc Dr I H Soper) partook of excellent spread luncheon at Castle Hotel; sports events & fireworks in evening Weekly Mail 25 Jun 1887 scan

: 1887 Dr I J Soper, surgeon of Blaina; had two rams stolen by Wm Williams 25, his farm bailiff, sold to a Blaina butcher for 32s. He claimed Soper asked him as they risked truck injury wandering round the works; Soper said no; 6m hard labour; Western Mail 18 Jul 1887 scan��committed at Blackwood petty sessions �to trial at Monmouthshire Assizes; Weekly Mail 23 Jul 1887 scan �

: 1887 Dr Soper of Blaina & family on list of Cardigan Bay holidaymakers, at Glanyweydd Terrace, Barmouth & Misses Levick & Miss Simpson of SE Lon (& Bingham/Marsden of Sheffield & Hodges of Lei [no link here]); Cardigan Bay Visitor 10 Aug 1887; 17th�& 24 Aug scan� �

: 1887 Dr I H Soper contributed 10s 6d to Blaina Cricket Club; �16 collected, at its 1st�AGM of 40 people at Lower Lion Hotel, Blaina; Pontypool Free Press 16 Dec 1887 scan �

: 1887 Dr Soper of Blaina's baliff died of exposure, David Jones walked to Ebbw Vale wife's medicine & was found the next day on Brierly Hill, frozen & could not be revived; S.Wales Echo; 22 Dec 1887; scan �

: 1888 Mr Soper, surgeon & his assistants did all they could, when 3 wagons passed over David Allen's legs on a level-crossing at Garn Coalyard, Blaina; but the poor lad, age 11, expired Western Mail 27 Aug 1888 scan

: 1889 Miss Soper, Mr Billups of Cardiff & Miss Eva Booth (dau of General Booth) opened a hall at Blaina & were returning to Cardiff when their coach took a wrong turn & were saved from an embankment on steep hill; Pontypridd Chronicle 15 Mar 1889 scan

1889 : ?? Misses Soper of London (& Misses Blood, Miss Dover, Dr Watson of Lon) staying at Church Gate, Church St, Barmouth on holidaymaker's list Cardigan Bay Visitor 18 Sep 1889 scan : [1887 Dr Soper of Blaina & family at Barmouth, but here from Lon?]
: 1889 Dr Soper & Dr Bolgar amputated the leg of Wm Hayward 48 of Blaina, while underground in coal mine a large stone fell on him. Poor fellow lies in precarious state; S.Wales News 17 Aug 1889

: 1891 Isabell Hawker Soper surgeon from Monmouth, Mary Elizabeth Soper & Susanna Soper both from Plymouth [his sisters, but both m.1890?]; A vellum document 22 Mar 1891 concerns Gilberton House, Regent St [Plymouth] & house & land adjoining Copper House Ln [Plymouth]; 3 wax seals; auctioned ebay 2014 source : [a garden of Elanixi Soper {father} by Copperhouse Ln mentioned when land to the North sold 1852 source]

: 1891 Isabell Hawker Soper 58 at Surgery Terrace, Surgery Rd, Aberystruth, Blaina, Monmouthshire 1891 census, surgeon MRCS [Member of the Royal College of Surgeons] (not a welsh speaker) b.Plymouth, dau Lilian May Soper 26unm b.Chertsey, Sy; aunt Elizabeth H Homes 70unm, living on own means b.Stafford, Wolverhampton : 2 Irish boarders James J Bolger 29unm & Pual Jennings 26unm both MRCS; cook Mary Tilbury 28 b.Herefordshire; housemaid Elizabeth Jeffries 23 b.Mon scan
- other children at Enfield in 1891, Fred 22 student living with sister Florence E Booth [see above]

: 1892 Dr J H Soper & Misses Soper attended laying of memorial stone for a Wesleyan new chapel at Blaina; The old chapel found to be unsafe through mine workings 2y ago; Western Mail 1 Nov 1892 scan

: 1893 Dr J H Soper attended a gasfitter at Lower Lion Hotel. A gas explosion left broken skull & eye blown out; he is in a precarious condition; Western Mail 1 Mar 1893 scan
: 1894 Dr I H Soper late of Blaina, now of Plymouth; replaced as auditor of Brynmawr Gas & Water Co Ltd (offices Blaina) by J J Titley of Bath; Evening Express 28 Feb 1894 scan

: 1896 son Frederick Robert Hawker Soper on Clergy List 1896 from www.findmypast.com

: 1899 Isabell Hawker Soper m.Maria Seymour Knowles, marriage registered Jan-Mar 1899 in Paddington District, London, vol 1a, page 3 [2nd marriage 1860] ancestry.com

: 1899 I Hawker Soper MRCS, Plymouth, m.Maria Seymour Knowles, 11 Jan 1899, widow of R J Knowles & dau of late Rev G[eorge] Bellamy of Northumberland. m.at St Matthews, Bayswater. Rev F R H Soper MA assisted the vicar [his son] : from 13 Jan The Times: 174/211p [he'd been widowed 19y] (m.Jan>Mar 1899, Paddington RD)

: 1901 Isabell H Soper in 1901 census 68 retired surgeon at 13 Citadel Rd, Windsor Terrace, Plymouth, b.Plymouth; wife Maria S Soper 60 b.Mevagisey, Cornwall; with dau's Lilian M Soper 36 b.Chertsey, Surrey & Evelyn M Soper 34 b.Mon Blaina, Glam; aunt Elizabeth H Homes 81unm, living on own means b.Stafford, Wolverhampton; 3 servants cook Sarah Webb 25; ladys maid Mary Veckendon 23; housemaid Annie A Allen 24 ; scan
: 1901 Isabell Hawker Soper 13 Windsor Terrace, Citadel Rd, Plymouth; Kelly's Directory of Devon 1901
: 1905 Dr Soper witnessed in court his patient from Abergavenny had melancholia, court agreed & dismissed Dartmouth theft case; Evening Express 1 Feb 1905 scan

: 1907 Miss Soper, sister of Mrs Bramwell elected at Plymouth as a Poor Law Guardian from 'The Colonialist' [Nelson] 19 Jun 1907 : [Nelson, NZ] paperspast : [assume Lilian May?]

: 1907 Isabell Hawker Soper MRCS, d.21 Dec at 13 Windsor Terrace, Plymouth; formerly of Blaina, Monmouthshire. age 76 funeral; Blaina Express 23 Dec 1907 scan; Funeral at Blaina Churchyard attended by large number of old inhabitants & public men of the district; Weekly Mail 28 Dec 1907 scan : [d.Oct>Dec 1907 Plymouth, age 75]
: 1907 In failing health for some time, but able to go outdoors last week; a member of old Plymouth family, father a chemist of Bellair Villa, Regent St. Student at South Devon & East Cornwall Hospital. Started large & lucrative practice in Blaina. Retired 14y ago & moved to Plymouth. Energetic & benevolent disposition, interested in movements benefiting the poor. Hon.sec & treasurer of Plymouth Soup Society. Active manager & member of committee of Plymouth & S.Devon Savings Bank, Constant worshipper & sidesman at Charles Church, Plymouth. Leaves widow son & 3 dau. Eldest, wife of Bramwell Booth, of the SA. Miss L M Soper member of Plymouth Board of Guardians; elected for Millbay Ward & directed SA Home for woman, King St. Member of Distress Committee, helps with local unemployed. Miss E M Soper 3rd dau, devotes whole of her time to philanthropic work. Son, F B H Soper ['Fred'] residing with his father in consequence of his advancing years; 28 Dec 1907 scan

: 1908 Isabell Hawker Soper (d.Dec 1909) probate Exeter 27 Jan 1908 to [son] Frederick Robert Hawker Soper gentleman; estate �28,824 19s; from Probate Calender, scan (d.Oct>Dec, age 75, Hampstead RD)
: 1908 Isabell Hawker Soper Will proved 27 Jan 1908 : executor Frederick Robert Hawker Soper of 13 Windsor Terrace, Plymouth. Claim to be sent by 30 Apr 1908 (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28113/pages/1350�>London Gazette 25 Feb)

: 1908 Lilian Soper Staff ..., has been seriously ill, and has had to undergo a grave opration, causing much anxiety to her family. War Cry, 25 Jan 1908 source

: 1911 censusMarie Seymour Soper 70 private means in 8 rooms at 3 Bridge, Totnes, b.Mevagisey, Cornwall '11cen; also neices Elizabeth Winifred Discou? 44unm b.Bellingham, N.Ireland & Winifred Jane Discou? 42unm, b.Naiden? NI, both private means & gen serv Sarah Ann Gill 18 b.Harbertonford, Dev scan

: 1911 census Evelyn M Soper 44unm salvation army officer at Homestead Hadley Crescent, Hadley Wood, Barnet, (Edmonton), Hants; b.Blaina, Monmouthshire living with sister Florence E Booth b.Blaina [m.28y, 7 children, all alive] & her husband William Bramwell Booth both SA staff officers; Bernard B 21; Olive E 19, Dora B 17, W Wycliffe 15; cook 43, housemaid 22 & maid 17; scan

: 1911 census Lilian M 46unm salvation army officer (rescue work girls home) in 7 rooms at 23 Cheltenham Place, Plymouth; b.Churckey on Thames, Buckinghamshire with Sarah Jane Webb 32 general servant scan

: 1913 Lilian Soper left Canada for home 27 Sep 1913; Letter to 'War cry' our tour of Canada has come to an end; Cpt Arnold & I step onboard cunard liner 'Ausonia'; I recall memories gathered over 5 months. Magestic Rockies, vast prairies, mighty Niagra, Ontario's charming hills, delecate beauty of Annapolis Valley [seems part of letter censored?] scan

: 1913 Lilian Soper (c1865-?) 48; england citizen, a S.Army Off, [Salvation Army] sailed 2nd class on "Ausonia" from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada, disembarked Plymouth (ship arrived London, Eng 7 Oct 1913) scan; UK Incoming Register

: 1914 Evelyn Mary Soper d.2 Sep 1914, spinster of The Homestead, Hadley Wood, Lon; probate Lon 4 Nov 1914 to [sisters] Florence Eleanor Booth (wife of |William Bramwell Booth) & Lilian May Soper, spinster; value, �6,568 ; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com)
: dau, Miss Evelyn Mary Soper of The Homestead, Hadley Wood, Herts, dau of late Dr J H Soper left �100 to Salvation Army Home, Kings St, Plymouth & �100 to Salvation Army : will proved �6,568 : from Guardian paper, 8 Nov 1914

: 1919 Mrs Hawker Soper entered, with abt.100 ladies, a national competition to give 4 quotations from British Poets on the value & beauty of work; from Llan 'The Church Family Newspaper' 31 Oct 1919 ; source

: 1924 Lieut-Colonel Lilian Soper (Mrs Bramwell Booth's sister) was a Soldier at Blaina, a Welsh mountain Corps, during Major Lawley's command in Wales treasures warm memories of the man; He'd walk backwards at the head of our little procession, cheering us on with gesture and song; Before my own days of Soldiership, he came to our house, to see my father, who was then very bitter in his opposition to The Army. On these occasions the Major must have used great tact & winsomeness [re relationship of her sister] source 1924, p44

: 1925 Maria S Soper (c1841-1925) d.Apr>Jun 1925, age 84, Plymouth, Devon (bmd)

Liet Col Soper, sister of Mrs Booth & dau of Dr Soper of Plymouth to visit Melbourne with other SA visitors. Miss Soper has filled many important positions & is an international inspector for all women's social agencies : from The Argus 11 May 1925 : Oz Papers [assume Lilian May Soper?]

Miss L M Soper saloon passenger, arriving Wellington on liner 'Ruahine' from London & Southampton on Fri; from NZ Herald, Auckland 15 Apr 1925 paperspast
: Lilian�M Soper (c1864-?) age 61, sailed from Southampton to Wellington, New Zealand, 1925 : from findmypast.com : [ '71cen Lilian M Soper 6 b.Chertsey, Surrey with widowed father Isabell H Soper (c1833-?) b.Plymouth, age 38, a surgeon MD, Aberystruth, Monmouth : '81cen Lilian M 16 boarder, scholar West Hill Windermere, Lewisham , Kent & Lilian M 26 with Isabell Hawker Soper 58, at Aberystruth '91cen] Isabell Hawker Soper (c1833-1907) surgeon of Plymouth & Wales

: 1925 Maria Seymour Soper d.6 May 1925, widow of 3 Wedgwood Villas, [Ford Park] Plymouth, Dev; probate Exeter 11 Jun 1925 to Wilhelmina Bellamy Hall, Elizabeth Winifred Dixon, spinster [what relations? - Maria ne Knowles] ; estate �11,401 15s; from Probate Calender, scan [Maria S (c1841-1925) d.Apr>Jun, Plymouth, age 84]

: 1942 Lilian M Soper d.Jan>Mar 1942 Edmonton, Ex/Lon, age 77 (bmd) : d.16 Feb 1942 The Homestead, 19 Crescent East, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Hert

William Soper passed his primary exam for the Royal College of Surgeons 1860 see below
William Soper (c1835-?) 1861 census, a L L A, [or SSA?], not in practice, see below

Robert Wills Soper (c1842-1900) surgeon apothecary, Dartmouth, Dev

Robert Wills Soper b.Jul>Sep 1841, Totnes, Dev to John & Caroline Wills, who m.1839 Dartmouth

John 47 spirit merchant at Lower Street, St Saviours, Dartmouth, Dev '51cen, b.Ditterham, Dev; Caroline 39; John Brown Soper 11 scholar; Robert Wills Soper 9 scholar all b.Dartmouth, Dev; & Louisa Head 18 house servant b.Galmpton scan ['61cen family not vis]

Robert Wills Soper of St Mary's Hospital, passed Royal College of Surgeons primary exams in anatomy & physiology : from The Times 16 Apr 1862 145/746n

Robert William Soper, Dartmouth admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, after examinations for the diploma : from The Times 31 Jul 1863 & in 'Morning Post' 1 Aug 1863, from news.bl.uk; scan

Robert Wills Soper of Dartmouth : Medical News pub.1863 Google Books snippet

R Wills Soper, Sheffield 1863 Royal College of Surgeons Google Books snippet

Robert Wills Soper of Dartmouth, Dev, having passed the necessary examinations was admitted licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, at Apothecaries' Hall on 4 Feb; in 'Standard' 6 Feb 1864, from news.bl.uk; scan
Robert Wills Soper at Dartmouth, Dev, 22 Feb 1864 : Mem R Coll Surg, Eng 1863, Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1864 snippet from Medical Register 1872 [*& in 1874 directory] Google Books snippet

Mr Soper & Mr Atkinson assistant house surgeons & Mr Ferandes house surgeon concluded that Charles Clements was brought from the workhouse to the infirmary with smallpox, so not admissible under rule 47; in 'Sheffield Independent' 10 Jun 1865, from news.bl.uk; scan

Robert W Soper MRCS Eng., has been elected Resident House-Surgeon to the South Devon & East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth : from medical Times 3 Feb 1866 Google Books snippet

R W Soper MRCS Rng, LSA reappointed Medical Officer of Health to the Dartmouth Town Council; Medical Appointments 1868; from source

Robert Wills Soper & James McMunn carrying on practice of surgeons, apothecaries & accoucheurs, Wolverhampton, Stafford, under �McMunn & Soper� was dissolved by mutual consent. And all debts due to & owing to go to James McMunn, 1 Dec 1870. (London Gazette 6 Dec) : 'Morning Post' 7 Dec scan & 'The Standard'; scan

Robert W Soper 29unm surgeon MBSLAS, at [or by] Market House Inn, New Rd, Dartmouth, St Saviour, Dev; b.Dartmouth a nephew odging with [uncle?] James P Oldreive 45 widower, cooper & baker b.Stokefleming?, Dev; James O L 9, Corina? 7, Annie M 3 all scholars b.Dartmouth & sister Anna M Perring 39m b.Stokeawton scan & scan [surname from James Oldreive Conroy Oldrieve b.Jan>Mar 1862 Totnes]

brother John B Soper 31 wine merchant at South Town, St Petrox, Dartmouth, 1871 census, wife Fanny M 30, Ann C 5 & Jessie 4 & 2 gen ser, all b.Dartmouth

Mr Soper surgeon of Dartmouth tried to restore animation; Inquest of Mr Short 60, drowned off Devonport; in 'The Royal Cornwall Gazette' 29 Jul 1871, from news.bl.uk; scan

Robert Wills Soper m.Helen Blanche T Puddicombe Apr>Jun 1873, Totnes, Devon (bmd)

Mr Soper of Dartmouth removed a uterine tumour Apr 1874, patient well when BMJ article written Jul 1878

- Mabel Edith Soper Jan>Mar 1876, Dartmouth : [Totnes RD] m .Apr>Jun 1905 Totnes (to Edmond Joseph Hills or Herbert Rockey)
- Gerald Morgan Soper Jul>Sep 1877, Dartmouth : [Totnes]; surgeon; d.3 Nov 1919 estate �19k, executors Elsie & Helen
- Elsie Caroline Soper Jan>Mar 1880, Dartmouth : [Totnes] m.Alexander DunbarWood of Minehead, bank manager, Jul>Sep 1910
- Helen Blanche Torre Soper b.20 Jan 1882 at New Rd, Dartmouth; '11cen 29unm at Plymouth with future husband 34unm with his family, see below; m.Apr>Jun 1911 Kenneth John Dewar Edwards of Plymouth bank accountant; Helen B S Edwards Oct>Dec 1947 Totnes, age 65

Mr R W Soper �13 for Dartmouth, Dev : Sanitary Medical Service 1877 Google Books snippet

Mr R W Soper Dartmouth sent an unpublished letter, Dec 1877 & Jan 1878, Mar 1889

Robert Wills Soper, in his will 28 May 1877 bequeathed all his real & personal estate to his wife Helen Blanche Torre Soper who was appointed executrix. dartmouth-history.org.uk

Robert Wells Soper a borough magistrate for Dartford. Possibly in 1878 : Gazetteer of Devon, page 272 source

Robert Wills Soper 39, MD Pensioner Member of the Rogers College (Surgeon) 1881 census : wife Ellen F Soper 35, Mabel Edith Soper 5, Gerald Morgan Soper 3 scholars, Elsie Caroline Soper 1 all b.Dartmouth, at New Road, Dartmouth with Bessie Pettyjohns General servant 25 & Eliza Jane Creber, Nursemaid 25 ancestry.com

Mrs R Soper a daughter b.20 Jan at New Rd, Dartmouth, 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post', 25 Jan 1882, from newspapers.bl.uk : [Helen Blanche S Soper b.Jan>Mar Totnes RD]

?a Robert Soper to share 20% share of a 25% share of residue of estate of Henry Brown JP of North Hill Ho, Plymouth, but only if his neice has no children; estate over �47k; Flintshire Observer 22 Mar 1883 scan : [only Robert Soper in Plymouth '81cen]

R Soper & J M Puddioombe of South Town, doctors of Dartmouth; 1883; Dictionary of Watering Places source p.35

Robert W Soper, surgeon of Dartmouth, did a superficial external examination of a Mrs Shortland found drowned in a pond & took for granted the death was by drowning, but her newly married husband was suspected, he gave a theory that she had fainted when near the edge of the pond & had fallen in unconscious. He could not say she drowned as the body has beren so long in the water. She was found 2 inches underwater in a blue dress & black hat; from Waikato Times, 6 Mar 1884 ; "The Devonsire Mystery"; "The Woman Standing Erect in the Water"; from The Penny Illustrated Paper, 24 May 1884 : Husband arrested & released in NZ source

Dr Soper of Dartmouth. attended when wife of Australian barrister Hugh Shortland was exhumed at Dartmouth cemetary & examined. Portions of body despatched to London for analysis; 'Banbury Advertiser' 22 May 1884

seems RWS remarried to Helen Blanche Torre Morgan between '81cen & 1885

Robert Wills Soper surgeon apothecary & accoucheur leased 38 Newcomen Rd, South Town, Dartmouth 22 Jan 1885, from father-in-law, John Morgan Puddicombe surgeon apothecary & accoucheur of Dartmouth [who d.17 Apr], R W Soper & wife, Helen Blanche Torre Soper [JMP's dau] to pay �65 pa for JMP's life & then rent to wife Helen. House had 32ft street frontage, a garden cottage & stable. (Mrs Caroline Soper owned the house to North). Church commissioners auctioned it to Mr Veale, builder (Mr Gilbert tenant) �225. Robert bought it from Veal, Feb 1900 (Gilbert still tenant); Robert d.Apr 1900, inherited by wife who d.1910 at Prospect House. Inherited by son Gerald Morgan Soper who died 1919 there. Inherited by sisters Elsie Caroline Wood (wife of Alexander D Wood of Minehead, bank manager) & Helen Blanche Sydney Edwards (wife of Kenneth J D Edwards of Plymouth, bank accountant). Property sold 1920 for �2,900 dartmouth-history.org.uk Deeds scan. [Was Prospect Ho & 38 Nwcomen Rd the same property or perhaps the garden cottage?]

H B T Soper's father John Morgan Puddicombe died at at 94 West End Terrace London, probate 20 Jul 1885. Her will of this date appointed son Gerald Morgan Soper & Harry Marsh Turnor of DMTH Steamship Agent executors of her will & bequeathed her home Prospect House with garden to use of G.M.Soper in fee simple : H B T Soper d.Prospect House 16 Feb 1910

Soper was on a committee of 4 doctors when The Dartmouth Village Hospital was built 1887. He quarreled with a fellow doctor there in 1910 : History of the Hospital

Dr Soper gave evidence at Dartmouth inquest of a man burnt to death on a hulk 'Jane' being towed from Portsmouth to Dartmouth. He thought the pipe in his pocked rekindled as he slept; in 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 19 Apr 1890, from newspapers.bl.uk

Robert Wills Soper, surgeon of Dartmouth, Devon MRCS LSA JP [Justice of the Peace], Admiralty Surgeon, Medical Officer for borough & port of Dartmouth. At New Road & Prospect House : from 1890 Whites Directory

Robert W Soper 49, medical general practitioner 1891 census : wife Helen B Soper 44, Mabel E Soper 15, Elsie C Soper 11, Helen B Soper 9 all b.Dartmouth, at 28b Newconun/Newcomin Rd, St Petrox, Dartmouth : with governess Eliza M Harland 27 b.Whirby, Yorks, cook Bessie Wills 35unm & housemaid, Bessie Harvey 17 scan: next door mother...
Caroline Soper 79, a widow living on own means & granddaughters Amy G Soper 25 & Jessie Soper 23 all b.Dartmouth with cook Sarah A Gardiner 22; housemaid Alice M Radford 20 : Dartford History.org

: 1892 Dr R W Soper a Borough Magistrates Dartmouth Guildhall; Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 5 Mar 1892 source

: 1896 Dr R W Soper at Dartmouth, certified John Williams a lumper, charged with committing a felony, as insane; 'Trewman's Exeter Flying Post' 10 Oct 1896, from newspapers.bl.uk

: 1897 Dr Soper gave 2nd opinion to Dr Charles J R Lawray, Dartmouth : from BMJ Mar 1897 : BMJ

R W Soper Medical Officer to Dartmouth Town Council 1898 Municipal year book : 1 of 7 Medical Officers at Kingsbridge Totnes Union Workhouses

Robert Wills Soper, surgeon, deeds of 38 Newcomen Rd, Dartmouth, 9 Feb 1900.Bought from Thomas Orlando Veale builder for �300, Mr Gilbert [still] the tenant. dartmouth-history.org.uk : Deeds scan

Robert Wills Soper, died 12 Apr 1900 at Prospect House Dartmouth. Probate of his will granted to H B T Soper, his executrix dartmouth-history.org.uk & "On Thurs afternoon Dr oper d.at his residence, Newcomin Rd, Dartmouth" source

Dr R W Soper, Certifying Surgeon, under the Factory Acts, at Dartmouth, Dev, consequence of the death the situation is vacant. Factory Department Home Office (London Gazette 24 Apr 1900) : [Robert Wills Soper]

1901cen mother Caroline Soper 89 widow living on own means at Newcousin Rd, Dartmouth, Dev, b.Dartmouth; with companion Emma Fairweather 37unm dom serv b.Kingsbridge; Mary Waite 23unm b.Kingsbridge & general help Elizabeth Weatherden 61unm b.Torquay scan

1901cen Blanche Soper 54 widow living on own means at Newcousin Rd, Dartmouth (St Petrox), Dev [next door to Caroline above]; Mabel Soper 25unm & Elsie Soper 21unm all b.Dartmouth & gen serv Ellen Blackwell 26unm b.Tedburn, Dev scan

1901cen ?a Helen Soper 19 governess at , Clevedon, S.set, b.Dartmouth;

1901 : Mrs C Soper & Mrs Robert Wills Soper, Newcomen Rd, Dartmouth (p.174); Kelly's Directory of Devon 1901

Helen Blanche Torre Soper, widow joint executor of mother-in-law Caroline (c1812-1904) d.Totnes, Dev, age 92; estate �7,928

Drs Harris & Soper of Dartmouth in court case to recover fees of 1 guinea each to examine 2 boys entering a reformatory. Exeter magistrates said Harris could not charge private patients fees for poor-law work. Lost with 1 guinea charges : Oct 1905 : BMJ

Mabel Edith Soper m.Apr>Jun 1905, Totnes, Dev (bmd) (to either Edmond Joseph Hills or Herbert Rockey)

H B T Soper, [widow] 16 Sep 1908 appointed her son Gerald Morgan Soper & Harry Marsh Turnor Steamship Agent executors & gave the house & garden adjoining Prospect House then occupied by Mr Gilbert to G M Soper in fee simple. dartmouth-history.org.uk : H B T Soper d.Prospect House 16 Feb 1910

Helen Blanche T Soper (c1847-1910) d.Jan>Mar 1910, Totnes, Dev, age 63 (bmd)

wife & eldest son, Helen Blanche Torre Soper & Gerald Morgan Soper Devon shareholders of the Great Western Railway, 1910. Named in the 'Probate Book' (90% entrys involve a death, 5% marriage) : details for sale from findmypast.com [age 3 in '81cen] : [died 1919, Devonport]

Children in '11cen (Mabel Edith m.1905 & Elsie Caroline m.1910)
Gerald Moyan Soper surgeon 33 at [Dartmouth/Road/Rd], Totnes b.Dartmouth
Helen Blanche Sydney Soper 29unm private means in 6 rooms at 4 Chestnut Rd, Plymouth, Dev; b.Dartmouth, Dev visiting John Edwards 70 widower, retired Capt, RN b.Con, Kenneth John Owen Edwards 34unm bank clerk scan** [m.Helen within 3m, below] (accountant) b.Alverstock, Hants, sister-in-law 64unm private means b.Portsea, Hants & gen serv Julia Coultry 27unm b.Ireland scan : [at nr8 John Charles Soper 30 accountant with family]

Helen B S Soper m.Kenneth J D Edwards Apr>Jun 1911, East Stonehouse, Devon (bmd)

G M Soper's will 1 Nov 1919 appointed sisters executors : Elsie C Wood (wife of Alexander D Wood of Minehead, Bank Manager) & Helen Blanche Sydney Edwards (wife of Kenneth J D Edwards of Plymouth Bank Accountant) : Dartford History.org
: G M Soper, [son] 1 Nov 1919 by his will he appointed his sisters Elsie C Wood & Helen Blanche Sydney Edwards executors. He died 3 Nov. Probate granted 1 Jan 1920 Dartmouth-history.org.uk : Deeds scan

- sold 38 Newcomen Rd 1920 for �2,900 : Dartford History.org

Walter Soper Gervais, a surgeon at Ashburton, Devon, visited Mrs Chalker & Spraque & a servant who were vomiting, he stayed overnight, seeing Mr Chalker collapse unconscious. He diagnosed poisoning & kept sample of vomit & rabbit pie. Mr Spraque, a doctor & his wife shared the Ashburton house. Mr Spraque left that morning, having previously threatening poison, Aropine poison was found in Spraque's surgery & in the pie. Sent for jury trial, �1000 bail : from The Times 27 July 1865 159/746n [still in practice 1890 : died 1892?]

Isabell Soper of [..], Wales, surgeon; Elioenai Soper of Plymouth, gent in property transaction 1865 [see the two biogs above]

Mr Soper communicated with The Lancet, 1868, from The Lancet; Google Books

Mr Soper, a surgeon of Clapham called to Clapham Station for an accident 1869 : [see William Soper below]
William Soper (c1835-?), a surgeon in 1871 census, at Guys Hospital see below

Dr Soper (2nd of 4), on Lambeth board of guardians. They wanted to employ a medical officer for �400 rather that pay per consultation : from The Times 1 Oct 1874 223/746n

J Hawker Soper* Balina Ironworks, Newport, Momouthshire : 1 Jan 1859 : Mem R Coll Surg, Eng 1855
- Robert Wills Soper* at Dartmouth, Dev, 22 Feb 1864 : Mem R Coll Surg, Eng 1863, Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1864
- John Soper Streeter, 20 Harpur St, Lon, WC : 1 Jan 1859; Liv Soc Apoth, Lon 1823; Mem 1824, Fell 1852; R Coll Surg, Eng
- Walter Soper Gervais*, Ashburton, Dev : 1 Jan 1859; MD Mariach Coll, Univ Aberd 1854; Mem R Coll Surg, Eng 1854; Lic Soc Apoth Lon 1854
snippet from Medical Register 1872 [*& in 1874 directory] Google Books snippet

Surgeon Major Soper on an Aldershot committee on Capt Warren's new pressure cooking system for feeding the army, 10 Oct 1874. Reported 1 Dec 1875, it suggested some modifications, saying it saved time, food & fuel.. Warren also designed a campaign buscuit containing meat which was not used : from The Times 7 Jan 1876 233/746n

William Soper MRCSE, FS, a large sheep farmer near Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. To treat lungworm he packed his sheep in a steam room with carbolic acid a mention in Waikato Times, NZ, 1 Jan 1884 [?Member of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh?] : [His wife Alice b.Notts?]

Dr Soper is most successful in growing orchids, particularly the East Indian species, several of which are planted out on a ragged bank above a water tank frpm p.12 : p.277 Mr Soper .. From his garden in the Clapham Rd, � of the variagated Pineapple which excited some interest : & unreadable mention of J.. Soper J� Wood (John Soper of John's Wood?) p.115; from The Garden, pub.1885 Google Books snippets : [see William Soper below]

Dr William Soper (c1835-1911) of London

William Soper Obit [scan] ; d.27 Nov Ventnor where he retired after 50y GP at Clapham educated Guy's, 3y apprenticeship with Dr Martin & Holman at Reigate. (professionally educated in days when apprenticeship was the rule). Medic to Stockwell Orphanage from 1905, Jews' Hospital Norwood (43y), Railway Servant's Orphanage 1886-1909, Anchorage Mission S.Lambeth. A Guardian of Metropolitan Asylums Board, Before retiring became vice-president RSA's Therapeutical Section. Mr Soper tall, well built, strong aquiline features & flowing beard. He'd had a 'grand manner' & a striking personality that brought terror to the malingerer, comfort to nervous women & magnetic to children. Became an authority on orphanage hygiene. A very able gynaecologist. Funeral Holy Trinity, Ventor 30 Nov, many friends & relatives travelled from London, many others sent flowers; from BMJ

: [assume William b.1 Apr, bpt.29 Apr 1835, St Mary, Rotherhithe (by Lambeth) to Capt Benjamin & Hester (m.1824, 8 children)]

William Soper's inscribed silver cup made London 1835; provenance via [grandson] Philip Soper who m.Barbara Rackham 1937 [Soper inscription unreadable in photo, perhaps re baptism?] auctioned 2011 source [image right]

: [no sign in 1841 census; not the William 7, 1 of 4 children with poor widow Rosamond Soper (a nurse), sharing 19 Vere St, London : the other William 7 pupil in Bethnal Green Rd School was child of Henry the silk mfr; ('41cen his 2 orphaned sisters at private school in Greenwich)]

: ['51cen William George Watts 51 solicitor b.Bermondsey, Sy; sister Hester 49 independent at 1b York Place, Lambeth, Sy; neices Maria 23; Mary Emma 21; nephew William15 all 'at home' b.Bermondsey, Sy; with brother & house servants Maryann Wright 29unm b.Durham & Jane Batsman 16 b.Leeds, Yorks; scan] : [William executor of uncle W G Watts 1858 below]

William Soper (Reigate) attended annual SE Branch meeting of The Medical Association at Chatham 25 Jun & 25 others inc Peter Martin (Reigate) Association Medical Journal : BMJ Jul 1856 : [William apprenticed to Dr Martin for 3 years, Martin d.1863 below]

William Soper of Reigate & Robert Slee of Southwark, executors of W G Watts, probate, 28 Jan 1858; will written 25 Aug 1856 (WGW's nephew) source

W Soper of Reigate amongst 10 botanists enrolled at the monthly Thirsk Natural History Club 8 Jan (also from Reigate J Linnell, jnr (artist) & J A & W Brewer : from The Naturalist 1858 Google Books snippet

William Soper passed his primary exam for the Royal College of Surgeons; from The Times 14 May 1860. He was admitted 3 May 1861 137,141/746n : [perhaps at Edinburgh, see 1884]

William Soper passed examination in the science & practice of Medicine 21 Feb 1861 (& 4 other men) ; Apothecaries Hall Google Books snippet

William Soper of Surrey passed examination in Science & Practice of Medicine 21 Feb 1861; Apothecaries Hall :
W Soper Percy Place, Clapham Rd admitted a Member of College of Surgeons after examination 30 Apr; from The Medical Times & 'Standard' 4 May 1861, from news.bl.uk; scan

William Soper of 1 St George's Villas, Stockwell Rd, Surrey S : Mem R Coll Surg Eng, Apr 1861; Lic Soc Apoth, Lon 1861 : On Medical Register 27 Jun 1862 : from The Medical Register, pub.1864; Google Books &

William Soper passed examination in the science & practice of Medicine 21 Feb 1861 (& 4 others) Google Books snippet

William Soper (c1835-?) 1861 census, aged 26, unmarried, a L L A, [or SSA?], not in practice, unm b.Rotherhithe, Surrey. A lodger at 168 Southwark Bridge Rd, Southwark St George, Surrey in house of Thomas Hardwick, a cab proprietor, wife (b.Cambs), 2 children, gen servant, also visitor, Mrs Lucy Soper (21) (a 'Leasehors of Minie'??) b.Cambs

William Soper m.Auguste Schlesinger, 3 Apr 1862, at Christ Church, Forest Hill (by Rev Goring incumbant of St Pauls, Newington). [a German actress] Eldest dau of late Theodore Schlesinger of Carlsruhe; from The Times 5 Apr : 50/211p

Mr Soper (Stockwell) 1 of 30 medical men (6 of whom relatives) attended a large funeral of Peter Martin at Reigate. A Surrey Standard obit included Mr Martin [a doctor] "was not a popular man'! but "much respected" & life 'cut off mid career' Nov 1863 : [William apprenticed to Dr Martin for 3 years, see 1856]

William Soper of 1 St George's Villas, Stockwell Rd, wrote to a letter to British Medical Journal 30 Oct 1863. Title 'Foreign Body in the rectum'. He's removed a digested cod bone from the rectum of a patient with his finger [thanks for sharing, William] : Another letter perhaps implies that he thought he'd used unnecessary force assisting a birth? : BMJ Oct 1864: [perhaps? the Dr Soper in discussion about "how high could a rectal tube be passed" : BMJ Dec 1910]

William Soper esq, Stockwell Rd, Surrey (& 8 other) sent scheduals for 'Therapeutical Inquiry nr 4' 'Scarlatina' pub.1963 : from British Medical Journal 1 Aug 1863

William Soper, Stockwell Rd, Surrey 1 of 66 members of Surrey BMC : from BMJ 12 Sep 1863 Google Books snippet

William Soper esq wrote to British Medical Journal about him delivering a 'spontanious evolution" : BMJ 9 Oct 1864

William Soper (c1835-?), a surgeon 36, 1871 census, at Guys Hospital, b.Bermondsey, Surrey. living at 283 Clapham Rd, Lambeth, with wife Augusta Soper 27 b.Carlsruhe?, Germany, daughters 'Agnes H Maine' 7 & Isabella M E Soper 5, both scholars, b.Stockwell & son Richard W Soper 1 b.Clapham. Also visiter Miss Harriett E Porter 35 b.Fareham, Hants & 3 general servants Sarah J Long 23 b.Deal, Kent : Sarah Ann Tiffen 25 b.Stoke, Suffolk & Therasa Limmerman 24 b.Gurdlingen?, Germany : his neighbours a medical profesor, chemist & medical student : scan

- Agnes Hester Marian Soper b.Jul>Sep 1863 Stockwell, Sy [Lambeth dist]; m.Alfred James Reed, of Grimsby, 21 Jul 1886 Lambeth, (William at 307 Clapham Rd); re.m.27 Sep 1917 William James Baxter Reed in Ontario, Canada; d.1955 British Columbia (Wm b.1863 Lambeth d,1965 BC)
- William Soper (1864-65?) b.Oct>Dec Lambeth, Lon; assumed from W Soper's wife a son b.17 Dec 1864 at Stockwell, 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon), 22 Dec, from newspapers.bl.uk; not vis '71cen; so perhaps William d.Jan>Mar 1865, Lambeth?
- Isabella Mary Emma Soper *(1866-96) b.Jan>Mar Lambeth; '91cen 25unm b.Clapham Rd visiting Wingate family; m.Dr William Warburton Wingate 1895 St George Hanover Sq; d.1896 Cambridge
- Augusta Soper (1867-67) b.4 Feb & d.18 Feb 1867 (14d) at 4 Clapham Rise, from 'Morning Post' & 'Pall Mall Gazette' scan : [Lambeth bmd dist]
- Mildred Auguste Soper (1868-68) b.16 May 4 Clapham Rise (from British Medical Journal 23 May) & Morning News scan & d.7 Aug, age 11 weeks, at Clapham Rise, from Morning Post [Lambeth bmd dist]
- Richard Watts Soper (1869-1956) b.9 Jul at 283 Clapham Rise, 'Morning Post' & Brit Med Journal) : [a Richard W to NY & back 1894?]; to US, a doctor, Iowa, US; m.Carolyn Rulon 1902 Kansas, Missouri; d.N.Carolina
- Benjamin William Soper (1872-1941) b.26 Jan Lambeth; Dulwich College, Lon; Lancing College, Sx [bro in Iowa above] to USA 1893; protestant episcopal rector in Iowa & Miami; d.Miami 1941
- ?Edith Soper b.Apr>Jun 1873 Lambeth (assume the Edith d.Jul>Sep 1873 age 0 Lambeth*); W Soper's wife of a dau 10 May 1873 at Clapham Rd, 'Daily News' 14 May, from newspapers.bl.uk [*but who was the 4th child mentioned in divorce court Dec 1874]
- ? ? a child born to wife during 1873-5 divorce, father Mr Larard (9 births before that - only 8 above)
- divorce 1875 & re.m.Alice Spencer Oct>Dec 1876, London City (bmd)
- George Bertram Spencer Soper b.Oct>Dec 1877 Stockwell, Sy [bmd Lambeth RD] : m.Francis Annie Ash Jan>Mar 1905 Penzance : [Betrum 33, wife Frances & sons '11cen] see Dr GBSS : assume the son b.at Clapham Rd b.23 Oct 1877, 'Pall Mall Gazette'
- Alice Miriam Soper b.11 Jan 1879 Lambeth (Alice Marion b.Stockwell, Sy '81cen) Alice Marian m.Alec Densham of Woodville, Worthing, at All Saints Church, SW 30 Apr 1904 : [photo of 'Marinn & Horace Soper' ancestry.com to tree there?]
- Hugh Thomas Burrell Soper (1880-1901) 29 Jan Stockwell, Sy [from '81cen] : [Hugh J B in '91& '01cen] : d.2 Jul [d.Jul>Sep Southwark, age 21]
- Horace Nettleship Soper (1882-1956) b.Apr>Jun Lambeth bmd district : [b,Clapton from '81cen] : [28 electrician with Bertrum '11cen] WW1 in Singapore; d.Lon biog
- Alan Harford Soper b.1 Jun 1887 London : in railways 1906; [age 23, res-London; nat-English on 'Majestic', from Southampton 2 Nov 1910 to Ellis Island, NY : US WW1 draft 30 unm welder of Iowa] : [bmd 'Alan Hurford Soper'] : Alan Harford b.c1887, lad at NE, London & S.Western Railway; wage 6s wp (�50 [written in red, what for?]) 7s 6d Apr'06; 9s 6d Oct'06; scan; Alan Harford Soper, Patent 20 Oct 1920 A pillion seat for motorcycles ext is provided with a frame carrying a box for tools ext, the seat portion forming the lid of the box ?source : 'Allen Harford Soper (1887-1963) black sheep of the family as my mother Jessie Soper tells me. He was shipped of to US...' [snippet from tree behind ancestry.com paywall]

William Soper gent of 1 St George's Villas, Stockwell, Sy; executor to mother Hester d.29 Jan 1864, widow of 14 Percy Place, Clapham, Sy; 4 Mar 1864; also executors; Maria Soper spinster & dau of 14 Percy Place & Henry Hall of Caterham, Sy [bro-in-law]; executors; estate under �10,000; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com) scan

William Soper MRCS Eng, [Royal College of Surgeons] has been appointed Surgeon to the Jews Hospital, Lower Norwood; from Medical Time, pub.1865 Google Books snippet : [held job for 43y, from obit]

William Soper of 4 Clapham Rise, Stockton became fellow of the Society 7 Mar 1866 (58 people attended meeting) : from Obstetrical Society of London 1867 Google Books snippet

William Soper's wife of a dau b.4 Feb 1867 at 4 Clapham Rise, 'Morning Post' (pub Lon) 7 Feb from newspapers.bl.uk
Augusta Soper infant daughter of William Soper died age 14 days; in 'Morning Post' 20 Feb 1867; scan

Mr Soper, Clapham; The Secretary of the Reading Pathological Society wrote letter to British Medical Journal 23 May 1868 www.bmj.com

Mr Soper surgeon of Clapham called to Clapham Station to find a partialy sensible victim, his arm torn off, leg crushed & skull fractured. Engrossed in a newspaper, a solicitor fell in front of a train : The Times 28 June 1869 178/746n

William Soper's wife of a son 9? Jul 1869 at 283 Clapham Rise, 'Morning Post' (pub.London) 14 Jul 1869, from newspapers.bl.uk

??Soper v Soper a divorce or matrimonial cause 1869 : more info available from www.findmypast.com [no names or place specified, presume William Soper & Augusta]

William Soper, 4 Clapham Rise, S : from Guy's Hospital Reports pub.1870 Google Books snippet

William Soper (c1835-?) surgeon 36, 1871 census, at Guys Hospital, b.Bermondsey, Surrey. living at 283 Clapham Rd, Lambeth, with wife Augusta Soper 27 b.Carlsruhe?, Germany, daughters 'Agnes H Maine' 7 & Isabella M E Soper 5, both scholars, b.Stockwell & son Richard W Soper 1 b.Clapham. Also visiter Miss Harriett E Porter 35 b.Fareham, Hants & 3 general servants Sarah J Long 23 b.Deal, Kent : Sarah Ann Tiffen 25 b.Stoke, Suffolk & Therasa Limmerman 24 b.Gurdlingen?, Germany : his neighbours a medical profesor, chemist & medical student : scan

William Soper MRCS LSA at 307 Clapham Rise, when son William Benjamin Soper b.26 Jan 1872; L.Dec 1885 & 2nd L; Dulwich College Register source

W Soper's wife of a daughter 10 May 1873 at Clapham Rd, 'Daily News' (pub.Lon) 14 May, from newspapers.bl.uk : [?assume Dr W? : no b.vis Lambeth bmd dist (inc Clapham) but in Apr>Jun 1873 Agnes b.St Olave & Edith b.Lambeth]

William Soper & Augusta Soper divorce or matrimonial cause 1873, www.findmypast.com : also Divorce Court File: 2791. Appellant, William Soper. Respondent, Augusta Soper; co-respondent, Mr Larard. Husband's petition for divorce [hd] from Public Records Office J77/134/2791 scan: [Soper v Soper linked with divorse petition 542 of William Soward v Maria Louisa Soward & Mr Walker 1873 scan {?a William Soward m.Maria Hunt (or Eliz Maria Davison) Oct>Dec 1858 Islington bmd (no Larard b or m.vis)}] : [imagine g.dau??? an Augusta Soper b.&d. Jan>Mar 1889, Lambeth]

Dr Soper's wife, Augusta Soper of 203 Clapham Rd, in Lambeth court for threatening Benjimine Read & others (She'd known him for several years, previous court case for swearing at him). In Nov a judge would not give her access to her 4 children. Previously at court for for smashing windows, breaking bells & causing a large crowd to assemble outside her husband's house. 10 Oct, she broke into Sopers coach house, demanded to a gathered crowd of 400 to see her husband & children. She returned at 4am to ring the bells. Later she gained access & tore Elisa Buckland's hair out, draging her down the hall & calling her children. She was bound over to keep the peace with �60 sureties; from The Times 18 Dec 1874 224/746n

Dr Soper [presume William] 2nd of 4 guardians on Lambeth board. They wanted to employ a medical officer for �400 rather that pay per consultation; from The Times 1 Oct 1874 223/746n

Miss Soper's residence of Essendene was robbed of a case of jewellery of considerable value, several robberies reported in Ventnor in past few days; Hampshire Advertiser 2 Oct 1875 [so unm sister Maria 47; 1st mention of Essendene; Wm d.there 36y later]

William Soper, 283 Clapham Rd, Surrey, SW; Mem R Coll Surg, ng 1862?; Lic Soc Apoth 1861? From the medical register 1875 Google Books snippet

Soper v Soper & Larard, petitioner, a surgeon, practicing at Clapham Rd, met his wife 1862, a German accress of fasinating manners & married her 3 months later. They seperated 1873 due to her violence & adultery (the man had now gone to America). Divorce proceedings started 1873 from findmypast. Wife pleaded desertion, but the case was virtually undefended. The court pronounced decree nisi, after the husband offered a �50pa allowance, on certain terms; The Times 13 Mar 1875 225/746n

Dr Soper, member of Kensington Board of Guardians brought to the board�s attention Eugenie Rogers, a highly educated woman, detained in Wandsworth Lunatic Asylum �mainly if not altogether on the grounds she disliked the taste of tea�. �I drunk a cup of tea one day, it tasted exceedingly nasty & I was ill�. Dr said that�s not the kind of delusion requiring an asylum; Case for review; S.Wales News 25 Apr 1876 scan

William m.Alice Spencer Oct>Dec 1876, Central London (bmd) : [presumed as George Bertrum Spencer Soper b.Oct>Dec 1877 : also Alice Miriam Soper b.Jan>Mar 1879 & Hugh Thomas B Soper b.Jan>Mar 1880 all registered Lambeth district (Hugh d.Jul>Sep 1901 age 21, Southwark)] : [seems family large sheep farmers nr.Sherwood Forest, see 1882]

Soper v Soper & Larard, article �Result of Marrying a Beautiful Actress�; Divorce Court. Dr William Soper, medical gentleman practising in Clapham Rd, Lon; Co-respondent, Mr Larard formerly jeweller, Clapham Rd. Divorce petitioned on grounds of adultery; but Mrs Soper charged he willfully deserted her without reasonable excuse. When Soper, was a hospital student he met attractive actress just arrived from Germany. Married shortly after & had 9 children. Mrs Soper of very violent temperament, often assaulted husband. His life so miserable he was compelled to leave her. Whilst his petition for divorce on cruelty was pending, he heard of her adultery. She visited Larard above his shop & told of their criminal intimacy. Whilst lodging in Croydon she slept with him & had his child. While William gave evidence she was next to him & he objected to �her posing as in great mental anquish�. Judge threatened to remove her, she left court & was heard crying in the lobby. Soper said his parents noticed he was ill & �he feared his brain could not stand it�. Violent tempers not his habit, but he got annoyed, when returning late from patients, to find his dinner cold & her reading novels. He saw the child once & offered to bring it up. His wife wrote to see him, saying she was dying but he did not, afraid of pretense. Evidence of cruelty given & jury found at once for Soper. Decree-nisi granted; He�d pay �50pa, if she did not molest him; Monmouthshire Merlin 19 Mar 1875 scan

Mr Soper of Clapham Rd as member of the Lambeth Board of Guardians, Wandsworth Asylum declared a woman not insane & that a Dr Pope had sent a sane woman to the asylum. Magistrates disagreed & Mr Soper [apparently] confessed he was wrong but did not apologise. A BMA committee said Soper acted improperly
William Soper wrote to say he could not apologise for words he never uttered and had severed connections with the BMA. He said the patient called Mr Pope 'a body snatcher not a doctor', in BMJ Dec 1876 : Assume - Soper v Gibson a past case discussed, concerning relieving officers & alleged lunacy, the defendant received an open verdict : BMJ June 1900

William Soper 283 Clapham Rd, SW, MRCS Eng & LSA 1861 (Guy's & Edin); Fell Obst Soc; Med Off Jews Hosp, Norwood & Stockwell Orphanages; Vis Med Off S.Lambeth & Disp : Medical Bibliography for 1877 : Soper & Wylie at 284 Clapham Rd, Alexander Wylie MD Qu Univ Irel 1872 : M Ch & LM 1873 (Belf & Lon) Google Books snippet :

W Soper visiting medical officer for S.Lambeth Dispensary, Clapham Rd; Medical Bibliography for 1877

Mrs William Soper at Clapham Rd son b.23 Oct 1877, 'Pall Mall Gazette' (pub.Lon) 24 Oct, from newspapers.bl.uk : [assume George Bertram Spencer Soper]

Mr Soper MRCS has somewhat alarmed the august members of the Lambeth Board of Guardians by inform�. Heading Small-Pox & Chicken-Pox : from The Medical Examiner, pub.1878 Google Books snippet

Mr Soper exhibited his Drain Disinfector at SE Branch Medical Association meeting. It disinfected hospital sewage with chlorine gas. He had experimented with in ventilation shafts in Deptford. British Medical Journal Feb 1879; BMJ L & Patented Registered Design Nr.6065. Hospital drain disinfector. Proprietor: William Soper, surgeon; 18 Jul 1878 National Archive

Soper-type portable disinfector 1879-1913, made by J. Stiff & Sons, a pottery business based in Lambeth, Lon. Supposed to �disinfect� an area, preventing cholera & typhoid, but perhaps more an smell inhibitor; wikimedia.org : [photo right]

W Soper an active member of the Stockwell Asylum committee, Hydrochloric acid gas used in sewage of the Fever Hospital : BMJ Apr 1879

William Soper's wife of a dau 11 Jan 1879 at 283 Clapham Rd, 'The Standard' (pub.London) 14 Jan; from newspapers.bl.uk : [dau Alice Miriam Soper]

William Soper of England In 1879, was the first to treat feces contaminated with typhoid with clorine before disposing of them in the sewer, in order to prevent infection : source

William Soper mrcs, lsa, 283,Clapham Rd, London, SW; Life Member & Associate of the Sanitary Institute; Soper wrote for the institute 1880 Disinfection of Excreta, water softening & purification by the process of Prof.Clark (late) source

Mr Soper's chlorine generators 'I then ordered one to be hung up inside the cradle & no dressing whatever to be applied' : BMJ Oct 1897 : also BMJ Dec 1880 'Excellent portable disinfecting apparatus are made by Mr Soper of 283 Clapham Rd'

William Soper's wife of a son 29 Jan 1880 at 283 Clapham Rd, from 'The Standard' 21 Jan, from newspapers.bl.uk : [assume Hugh Thomas Benett? Soper]

William Soper (c1835-?) surgeon of 283 Clapham Rd in 1881cen. 46, b.Bermondsey; Alice 29 b.Evercoates, Notts; dau Agnes Hester Marian Soper 17; George Bertram Spencer Soper 3; Alice Marian Soper 2; Hugh Thomas Banelt? Soper 1 all b.Stockwell, Sy, & cook Sarah Dennington 24, nurse Mary Ann Kew 28 both b.Suffolk, 2 servants Charlotte Stockbridge 21 b.Cambs & Minnie Saxby 21 b.S.set; scan
: ['81cen dau Isabel M E Soper (c1866-?) 15 boarder, scholar, b.Lon, 1 of 18 girls at boarding school, 6 Fauconberg Terrace, Cheltenham]
: ['81cen son '81cen Richard Soper 11 boarding scholar at Chatham House College, Ramsgate; b.Clapham]
: ['81cen son?? Benjamin William poss as William B Sopher 9 scholar b.Lon; with Eliza H Gale 18unm governess & teacher b.Newark, Nots & George A Lauphire 8 scholar b.Alford, Lincs (not vis '91cen or '01cen)]

William Soper wrote to 'The Field' about tread-worm in stock. I visited my relative, a large sheep farmer, on high land, nr.Sherwood Forest, Notts last summer & was struck by the 50% mortality in sheep. Soper admited his normal work is with animals called humans, but he packed 40 sheep in a room for 1h with carbolic acid steam; source 30 Sep 1881 : [2nd wife Alice b.Notts; m.1876]

William Soper's wife of a son b.3 Apr 1882 at 283 Clapham Rd, from 'The Standard', 7 Apr, from newspapers.bl.uk : [Horace Nettleship Soper b.Apr>Jun 1882 Lambeth]

William Soper of Clapham chaired the SE Branch of East Surrey District [BMA?] at Queens Hotel, Upper Norwood, SE, 4pm, 4 papers to be read & diner served at 60m, charge 7s inc wine from British Medical Journal 3 Mar 1883 source

Dr Soper of 307 Clapham Rd, medical officer & trustee (with no fee or reward) of 'Boys & Girls Stockwell Orphanage' for 6 to 10, His annual report of Mar 1883, mentions he used milk in medical treatment, partly to avoid pupils getting the taste of beer or wine, 'one of the greatest curses of the nation'. He mentions ringworm, abscess & chilblains 'like the poor are always with us. The bath has proved a great boon' source p.226

Dr Soper observed that at Grimsby the other day he saw 25 cod sold for �1 & 60 70lb boxes haddock at 2s 9d ea. Meat dinner costs 4d per head, Grimsby would deliver dressed fish for 2d per lb, so Lambeth Board of Guardians to substitute fish for meat once a week;�Wrexham Advertiser 15 Sep 1883 scan : [80m NE of wife's Nottingham relations]�

Dr Soper is most successful in growing orchids, particularly the East Indian species, several of which are planted out on a ragged bank above a water tank frpm p.12 : p.277 Mr Soper .. From his garden in the Clapham Rd, � of the variagated Pineapple which excited some interest : & unreadable mention of J.. Soper J� Wood (John Soper of John's Wood?) p.115; from The Garden, pub.1885 Google Books snippets : [Dr William lived William Soper]

dau Agnes Hester Marie Soper m.Alfred James Reed, 21 Jul 1886, at All Saints, South Lambeth (only son of James Reed of Westland Corner & eldest dau of William Soper of 307 Clapham Rd, Lon) : The Times 22 Jul 111/211p : [Agnes Hester M Soper m.Jul>Sep 1886 Lambeth] : ['71ceb Agnes H Maine 7 scholars b.Stockwell : '81cen Agnes Hester Marian Soper 17] : [by 1886 a Dr Wylie at 307 Clapham Rd]

William Soper, surgeon of 283 Clapham Rd, Surrey, son Alan Harford Soper : b.1 Jun 1887 : adm 26 Sept 1901 : left July 1904 : source & The Times birth notice :
: [Alan immigrated to NY 1910 : In US WW1 draft record : b.London : age 30 Ceder Falls, Iowa (a welder? in Motor Company), no dependancies, single, no previous military sevice]

1889 : ?? Misses Soper of London (& Misses Blood, Miss Dover, Dr Watson of Lon) staying at Church Gate, Church St, Barmouth on holidaymaker's list Cardigan Bay Visitor 18 Sep 1889 scan : [based purely on the dr; speculate Maria 61unm & neice Isabella 23unm, dau of Dr William Soper of London]

Mr W V Soper, London wrote letter to The British Medical Journal, Jan 1889

?a Dr William Soper (c1840-?) physician 50 sailed 1st cabin class on "Normannia", Hamburg-America Line; from New York arriving Southampton, Eng 4 Jul 1890 scan; name ringed with Percy Hall UK merchant; & Dr WW van Vabrah 38 above; Incoming passenger List; ancestry.com : : [but Dr William of Clapham, b.1835]

William Soper 56 general practitioner of 307 Clapham Rd, Lambeth '91cen; b.E.Grinstead, Sx; Alice 39 b.Martham Clinth?, Notts; George B S 13; Alice M 12; Hugh J B 11; Horace N 9; Allen H 3, all b,Clapton; with 3 unm female servants Kate Braker 38, R Tapscott 30 [in 1901], Kate Bellworth 18; scan
: dau Isabella (c1832-?) 25unm visitor at Oakhurst, London Rd, Tunbridge, Hildenborough, Kent '91cen; b.Clapham Rd, Lon visiting Robert Wingate 55 surgeon b.Spilsbury, Linc; wife Bertha 54 b.Southwark, Lon, nephews William* 23 surgeon & Philip 23 student & 3 unm dom servants, Anne 26 & Rosina J Piggott 18 both b.Peckham & Rosina Green 25 b.Cambs : scan : [*Isabel m.William Warburton Wingate 4y later]

: sister Maria Soper 63 living on own means at Essendene, Bath Rd, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hants '91cen; b.Bermondsey, London also general servants Laura Webb 40unm b.Southend, Ex & Lucy Chandler 22unm b.Failham, Hants; scan : [Dr.William d.Esseldene]

William Soper of Clapham Rd, wrote letter to BMJ, disagreeing with 'Milk Beef Tea' advocating that meat & milk should not be eaten together (as in Jewish law - though he is not a jew) Mar 1892 : [he was medical officer for Jews' Hospital Norwood for 43 years]

: son Benjamin Soper (c1872-?) english, clerk 21unm sailed 2nd class on "Umbria" from New York, NY, arriving Liverpool 23 Apr 1893 scan & scan2 UK incoming passenger List; ancestry.com : [??a Benjamin 18 sailed 1890] Benjamin, a Methodist rector in Iowa & died there 1941

: dau : Isabel? Mary Soper m.William Warburton Wingate MB BC? 7 Dec 1895 at St Andrews Church, Abbey Place?, Westminster; eldest? son of late William Wingate of Ludford Magna; dau of William Soper MRCSE of Clapham Rd (by Rev Edwards); in 'Morning Post' (pub.Lon) 10 Dec, from newspapers.bl.uk : [m.Oct>Dec, St Geo. H. Sq, reg dist] : ['71cen Isabella M E Maine 5] : ['81cen Isabella 15 boarder, scholar, b.Lon, 1 of 18 female boarding school students at 6 Fauconberg Terrace, Cheltenham, Glos] : ['91cen; Isabella 25unm at Tunbridge, Kent; b.Clapham Cross, Lon visiting Dr.Robert Wingate 55; wife Bertha 54, nephews William 23 surgeon {who she m 4y later} & Philip 23] : Isabel Wingate (ne Soper), d.6 Nov 1896, at 60 St Andrews St, Cambridge, wife of W Warburton Wingate, dau of William Soper of 307 Clapham Rd; from The Times 10 Nov 168/211p : ['Isabella Emma Wingate' d.Oct>Dec 1896 Cambridge, age 30] : [her dau Isabella Wilhelmina Warburton Wingate b.29 Oct 1896 survived & called Wihelmina] : William (1866-1943) a doctor rem.1915; tree

Dr William Soper at funeral of Edmund Galton, surgeon, Brixton Church : BMJ Apr 1898

William Soper had been medical officer at the Stockwell orphanage (East London) for over 30 years : from The Times 24 Oct 1899 : 516/746n : see above : ['71cen Agnes Soper a patient at Paddington, age 27 b.Dunsfold, Sy]

Mr Soper played a solo on the violin & 'Auld Lang Syne' sung at St Georges Hospital Medical School diner at Hotel Metropole 1 Oct 1900, from BMJ : [speculate Dr William or a son]

William 65 surgeon (working at home) at 307 Clapham Rd, Lambeth '01cen; wife Anne [*Alice?] 49, b.Markham, Notts; 4 children b.Clapham George B S 21unm medical student, Alice 22unm, Hugh T B 18, Horace N 18 a clerk, Eastern Telegraph?, 3 unm servants, parlormaid Florie E Tapecoat 40 [as in '91cen]; cook Alive A Walker 34; housemaid Minnie S Turow 20; scan : [*wife definately 'Alice' in 1881/91 but 'Anne' in '01cen both b.Notts & Alice '11cen] : [George a lieut Medical Corp WW1 see below]

: sister Maria 73unm living on own means at Essendene, Isle of Wight, Ventnor, Hants, '01cen, b.Bermondsey, Lon; with servants Laura Webb 38unm housekeeper, b.Hadleigh, Ex & Emily Pickers 26unm companion b.Bentley, Sk; scan : [Maria d.Jan>Mar 1910, I of W, age 82 dau of Capt Benjamine Soper m.1824; sister to Dr.William d,Esseldene 1911]

Hugh Thomas Burrell Soper d.2 Jul 1901, of 307 Clapham Rd, Surrey; admin London 13 Jan 1912 to Alice Soper widow; value, �278; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com) [mother, as father d.Nov 1911 (his probate 10d before Hugh's; why 12y probate?)]

Dr William Soper (Clapham Rd, S W.) writes: Some time since some children were returned from the Asylum Board Hospital, with incomplete desquamation : BMJ Apr 1903
: William Soper of Clapham Rd SW; wrote letter of children being returned home from the Asylum Board Hospital with scarlet fever still contagious Brit Med Journal p.948
: Mr W Soper (London) wrote unpublished letter to BMJ Feb 1891 & others in Mar & Nov 1903

Miss Soper at 'Essendene', Bath Rd, Ventnor, between Belgrave Rd & Esplanade, I of W Directory, 1904 : [Dr William died there 1911; speculate dau Alice Miriam Soper b.1879 Lambeth & m.Apr>Jun 1904 Lambeth] : ['81cen a retired Indian Army surgeon James Lancaster 73 b at Essendene, wife Sophia & dau Mrs.Dyson b.Ramsgate (perhaps medical/Ramsgate connection?]

W Soper edited the 'Therapeutical & Pharmacoligical' section of a Royal Society of Medicine publication : BMJ Ec 1907

Dr William Soper, gave a talk 'Reminiscences of an Apprentice 50 years ago' at a meeting of the Therapeutical & Pharmacoligical' section of RSM : BMJ Dec 1907

W Soper, GBS, Esq, 344 Clapham Rd, SW, a new member of Metropolitan Counties Branch : BMJ Dec 1909

Mr William Soper, medical officer of the Jews' Hospital & Orphan Asylum was presented with a handsome silver rose bowl & a tea & coffee service as a token of the committee�s appreciation of services during 46 years. He is succeeded by his son Dr Bertram Soper. The presentation was made by Sir George Faudel-Phillips, President : from BMJ Nov 1909

William 76 retired surgeon in 15 rooms at Esendene, Ventnor, I of W, Hants; b.Bermondsey, SE , London '11cen Alice 59 {m.34y, 5 births, 4 alive} b.Berecoats, Notts & servants Esther Stokes 19unm housemaid & Lilian Victoria Bitton 30 cook {m.11y, 1 birth} scan

William Soper MRCS LSA, died age 76, 27 Nov 1911 at 'Essendene', Ventor, Isle of Wight. Formerly of 307 Clapham Rd : from BMJ : Probate London 3 Jan 1912 to Alice Soper widow; value, �12,455; from Probate Calender (ancestry.com) : (d.Oct>Dec, age 76, I of Wight, bmd) : [his sister Maria 53unm there '81cen & '91cen]

Alice Soper (1852-?) traveler 61 sailed 1st class on "Minneapolis" (Atlantic Transport Line), London to New York, USA, from 26 Jul 1913; Last permanant residence & intended future residence England; scan; from findmypast
: Alice Soper (c1851-?) English citizen, 62 widow sailed 1st class on "Minnetonka" (Atlantic Transport line) from New York, US arriving 6 Oct 1913 London, Eng; Last permanant resident Eng scan; UK Incoming Register : [only Alice widow vis (& 1st class); Might 'traveler' imply medical sales? William to NY 1890]

Alice Soper d.6 Jan 1919, widow of Essendene, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hants; died Nursing Home, Wykeham Rd, Worthing; probate London 26 Feb 1919 to Percy Hedley Hall, solicitor, Harry Arbuthnot Spencer, estate agent; estate �12,538 9s 2d; from Probate Calender, scan : (Alice (c1852-1919) d.Jan>Mar, E.Preston, Sx, age 67) : Will & 4 codicils advert seeking claims by 30 Aug

Agnes Hester Maria Reed d.25 Feb 1955, White Rock, British Columbia source

Robert Wills Soper 39 Pensioner Member of The Rogers ['Royal?'] College (Surgeon) : wife Eilen F Soper 35 : children Mabel Edith Soper 5 : Gerald Morgan Soper 3 [a doctor 1902] & Elsie Caroline Soper 1 all b.Dartmouth : in '81cen at New Rd, St Savior, Dartmouth, Dev, with female servant 25 & nursemaid 25 : [see biog]

George Soper Relief Officer, 17 Stafford St, Lisson Grove, 27 Oct 1881, "The Marylebone Fever Cases". George Soper corrected report of Mrs Barton of Charles St, Lisson Grove who died if a fever. He asked the husband to leave until the room had been disinfected by the sanitory officer; I've been a relieving officer of 13y experience, he said in all cases of fever, bedding is destroyed of disinfected, & if destroyed fresh bedding supplied; The Standard, Lon, 29 Oct; from 19thC British Library Newspapers
: [George Soaper 43 relieving officer '81cen, b.St Martin; Jane 43 b.Havre, France; Frank 10; Emily 7; George 4 all b.St Marylebone]
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Mr Soper, Medical Officer, identified putrid meat at a butchers, Station Rd, Lambeth; from The Times 13 Oct 1881 269/746n Sept 1880 264/746n

W V Soper, London wrote letter, British Medical Journal. Jan 1889

Walter Soper Gervais, Ashburton 1854
- J Hawker Soper, Blaina 1855 ; Calendar of Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1888 Google Books snippet
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Walter Soper Gervis Esq. MD of West St, Ashburton, Devon : Morris Commercial Directory 1870
W Soper Gervis, a Surgeon, West Street, Ashburton? 1890 Whites Directory : Ancestry.com : [see Walter Soper Gervais 1865]
Walter Soper Gervis bookplates on The Art Journal 1862-1890, sold by bearnes.co.uk
Walter Soper Gervis [medical practitioner] Obituary notice by W Harpley, Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 24, 1892 pp.42-43

Dr W Soper & Mrs Soper Saloon class on 'Germanic' (3,149 tons, 640 passengers), foregners* remark 'P' [1 ticket away Dr E L Sherpard "P" & wife, english; 2 other "P's" are Revs, so assume "professional"] : [*ie not Eng, Scot, Ire] 20 Jul 1892; scan : from findmypast.com : [ '91cen a Dr Wm in UK but b.Lon & not worked abroad]

Nurse Soaper was sent 10 Nov to a small-pox case at Lymm, Cheshire. She (possibly) caught small-pox & took to her bed. Manchester Royal Infirmary sent a 2nd nurse who found a improvised small-pox hospital in two dirty cottages with 10 victims with no water (including Miss Soaper, ill in bed). One died & the nurse had to screw down the coffin top as the bearers refused to enter. After Soaper recovered enough to be removed, the 2nd nurse refused to work there & a court case supported her : from Guardian Newspaper, 11 Nov 1893 : [2 families in Ceshire; perhaps?? '91cen Letitia 32 governess, unm dau of Rev Richard George Soper (1829-1912), congregational minister 1865]

Dr John Soper (c1866-?) English surgeon 27unm sailed on "Campainia?" from New York, NY, arriving Liverpool 10 Jun 1893 scan & scan2 UK incoming passenger list; ancestry.com : [but seems no English Dr Soper?]

Dr & Mrs Soper guests at m. of Sir C Pery Van-Notten-Pole & Freda K Freake at Twickenham; reception at Fulwell Pk, Twickenham; 'Banbury Guardian' 5 Jul 1894

Frank A Soper passed his dental surgery exams, Royal College of Surgeons; from The Times 27 June 1894 398/746n
: 1868 Frank Arthur Soper b.Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk 1868 [Oct>Dec bmd] to Frederick & Anne who m.1863 Brighton: father (b.Brighton) a Norfolk dentist assistant '91cen
: 1881 Frank A Soper 12 scholar at Church St, Heigham, Norfolk, '81cen b.Norwich, Heigham, 1 of 9 children of Frederick 42 dentists ass b.Brighton & Anne 42
: 1898 Frank A Soper LDS RCS m.22 Dec 1898 at Albury Rd, Aberdeen to Elizabeth H Aird, grand dau of late Erskine Macdonald of Aberdeen (by Rev Brebae of Ollcomston? Parish Church); in 'Aberdeen Weekly Journal' 28 Dec, from newspapers.bl.uk
--- 1899 son, Frank A Soper's wife of a son b.23 Sep 1899 at 2 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen : Frank 'LDS RCS, Eng'; in 'Aberdeen Weekly Journal' 26 Sep, from newspapers.bl.uk
: '01cen Frank Arthur 32 surgeon dentist at (St Machar), Aberdeenshire, b., Eng; Elizabeth H 26 b.Moffat, Dumfrieshire, [but child not there?]; Annette Esther Soper 35 b.Eng; [brother] George Edward 19 dental student b.Eng & gen dom serv Mary Wilson 27unm bTurriff, Aberdeenshire; no scan
--- 1903 dau; Frank A Soper LDS; wife of a dau b.22 May 1903 of Hamilton Place, Aberdeen : Frank 'LDS RCS, Eng'; in 'Aberdeen Weekly Journal' 26 Sep, from source
: 1903 Frank Arthur Soper dentist LDS Eng, residence 2 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen; business 16 Golden Sq; [also at address Mackintosh Thomas Alexander LDS Edin] from Slater's 1903 Commercial Directory of Scotland; source
--- 1908 son, Frederick Arthur Soper b.29 Jul 1908 [from '39cen]; dentist; m.Ada F Adcock 1937, Marylebone [see below]
: 1911 nov vis
: 1913 F & G Soper, firm of surgeon dentists, 20 Golden Sq, Aberdeen; Frank Arthur Soper L D S & George Edward Soper L D S, sole partners, disolved 31 Dec 1913 by retiral of G E Soper; F A Soper will continue the practice at same address Edinburgh Gazette 17 Feb : [*brother G E Soper, dental surgeon see, b.Norwich]
: 1919 F A Soper of Aberdeen an Ivory Cross Dental Surgeon. (formerly Soldiers & Sailors Dental Aid Fund) Committee 1919 : from www.tlemea.com
: 1925 Frank Arthur Soper 20 Golden Sq, Aberdeen, LDs RCS Eng 1894 (Dent Hosp Lond) : from Dental Surgeons Directory 1925
: 1932 Frank Arthur Soper LDS RCS & Claude Frederick Haine LDS RCS disolved dental surgeon partnership at 20 Golden Sq, 1 Apr 1932; payments & debts to Mr Soper Edinburgh Gazette; witnesses by said FA Soper & CF Haine, 2 Apr 1932. Soper will continue practice with assistance of his son, Frederick Arthur Soper; Aberdeen Journal 6 Apr
: 1937 Marjory MacDonald Soper, dau of Mr & Mrs Frank A Soper, Malcolm's Mount, Stonehaven; m.James Henry Crabb, 1937, son of Mr & Mrs T Crabb, of Tringwood, Chesham, Bucks source [her grgrgrfather a MacDonald]
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- - - - son, also as dentist
Frederick A Soper m.Ada F Adcock Apr>Jun 1937, Marylebone, Lon (bmd) : dental surgeon (b.c1909) [if so - not vis UK bmd] : ['11cen no FAS vis]
- Malcolm L Soper b.Oct>Dec 1938, Islington, Lon (mother nee Adcock)
: ?date a Frederick Soper mechanical dentist of 24 Eversholt St, Oakley Sq, on an omnibus & witnessed an event involving a drunk; undated news snippet source
: 1932 Frederick Arthur Soper LDS RCS & Claude Frederick Haine LDS RCS disolved dental surgeon partnership at 20 Golden Sq, 1 Apr 1932; payments & debts to Mr Soper Edinburgh Gazette
: '39cen Frederick A 31 dental surgeon (b.29 Jul 1908) at The Shrubbery, 35 Grove Rd, Wanstead & Woodford, Ex; 'Audrey F' 32 unpaid domestic duties (b.3 Jun 1907) [crossed out, 'see page 20']; 3rd line blacked-out [assume Malcom] scan
: '39cen [duplicate] Audrey F 32m unpaid domestic duties (b.3 Jun 1907) at 35 Grove Rd, Wanstead & Woodford; 1st line blacked-out scan
: 1940 Frederick Arthur Soper nr.131200, appointed Lieutenant, Army Dental Corps 27 May 1940 London Gazette
: 1947 F A Soper (1909-?) dental surgeon 38, A F 39 & M L 8; 1st class on "Orion", London to Sydney, Australia, 1947; address The Hardwick Hotel, Victoria Rd, Swindon, Wilts; Last permanant residence England; Intended future residence Australia (3 other dental surgeons on page) scan; from findmypast

John Soaper, a fisherman I knew. He fished until he was over 40 years of age. He then studied medicine, taught himself surgery, performed some difficult operations by cutting off legs, cancers, etc, and became a most sucessful medical practitioner, was a great book-worm, I�.. snippet from 'Kaleidoscope Echoes' 1895, perhaps from Canada : GoogleBooks.com

John Elford Soper (1866-1956) b.Battersea, Lon; Graduated Minneapolis US; Medical Capt WW1; a Minnesota doctor

John Elford Soper m.Mildred Elvira Lawrence, 16 Sep 1896 Hennepin County, Minnesota record; John b.7 Jul 1866 [Battersea, Lon] Eng ('John Soper' b.Jul>Sep 1866 Wandsworth reg dist {inc Battersea}) to Giles Ching Soper (1828-94) & Emma Elford m.1850 Westminster. Mildred b.1872 in Dundas, M'sota*
: 1871 cenus, John 5 inmate Basing Workhouse, Hants; with Alfred 10, Emma 8 & William 6 : scan : [parents divorsing counter-claiming violence v.adultery; Giles 41 managing a Reading steam works (father had been absent in Russia & later returned as engineer & remarried in Russia) & Emma 39 in Basingstoke with older son 17]
: 1881 census John 14 bakers boy at Earley, Berks, Eng; with mother Emma nurse 49, Alfred 20 clerk, William P 15 : ['91cen; John not vis UK; no John vis US sailings 1881-93]
: 1893 couple immigrated; from 1920cen when '1887'; but in 1900cen '1888'
: 1893 Dr John Soper (c1866- ) English surgeon 27unm sailed, 2nd class, on "Campainia?" from New York, NY, arriving Liverpool 10 Jun 1893 scan & scan2; UK incoming passenger List; ancestry.com : [well almost a surgeon?]
: 1896 John Elford of Minneapolis, Graduated, Doctor of Medicine, Minneapolis, College of Medicine & Surgery source, & : [finance from uncles? divorced father in Russia with new family]
: 1896 John Elford Soper of Delano m.Miss Mildred Lawrence [16 Sep] at her parents house (Mr Wealey M Lawrence, 1,922 Clinton Ave) by Rev Morgan E Wells, of Fort Worth Texas & First Baptist church officiated; �a charming home wedding witnessed by 50 friends�; from St.Paul Globe. 17 Sep 1896 source :
: 1900 cen John Elf Soper 34, b.Jul 1866 England* (to Eng b.parents); Residence: Norwood, Young American & Hamburg Villages, Carver, Minnesota; '00cen; wife (m 4y; c1896; 0 births; immigrated 1888) Mildred E Soper 28 b.Jan 1872 Minnesota (father b.Eng, mother b.Vermont) source; scan
: 1900-10 at Norwood, Carver, M'sota. John a doctor*
: 1902 John Elford Soper MD of Norwood, Physician & Surgeon; Image in p.254 "Men of Minnesota" pub.1902 source : [image right]
: 1903 John Elford Soper reported to coroners for Carver, Minnesota; some unusual deaths (17 Dec 1903 head pulped by tons of gravel; 25 Feb 1904 wife burned to death; 5 Oct 1904 killed with head injury in cyclone; 13 Oct 1905 shot by duck hunter; 24 Sep 1906 crushed between railway cars). An MD reporting before Mar 1902 & after Nov 1907, so presume a doctor? source, &, &
: 1910 cen J Elford Soper 41 physician, general practice (own account); b.Eng (parents b.Eng) owned house at Norwood Village, Carver Co, Minnesota, US; Mildred 33 {m.14y} b.Minnesota (parents b.Eng) scan
: 1913 Dr Soper, living in US, revisited Basingstoke workhouse he'd been an inmate as a child [42y earlier]. Nephew of John Burgess Soper, ex.mayor of Basingstoke. He'd achieved an MD degree, surgeon to railway co, a coroner & Mayor of his town 4 times source
: 1913 Elford Soper physician & Mrs Elford Soper; US citizens sailed 2nd class on "Teutonic" (White Star Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada arriving Liverpool, Eng 11 Jun 1913 Last permanent residence USA; 'Min 1890' scan; UK Incoming Register : [so 5 weeks before returning & 9d voyage]
: 1913 Ilford Soper (1877-?) doctor 36; & Mrs Soper 34 foreign [ie not British] sailed 2nd class on "Arabic'' from Liverpool to Boston, US, departing 15 Jul 1913 {White Star Line, 15,801 tons; 690 passengers}; scan & scan2 : [why exit with different name? & he was c47]
: 1913 Dr John Elford Soper (c1873-?) 40 & wife Mildred 35 housewife, arrived in Boston, US on the 'SS Arabic' from Liverpool 24 Jul 1913; English Nationality, last permenent residence 'foreign' Min 1890' from ancestry.com, Boston Passenger Lists; from findmypast
: 1917 John Elford Soper's nephew John Elford Soper (1889-1917) d.WW1; Oxford & Bucks Light Inf; 1917
: 1917-19 Captain Medical Detachment, 151 Field Army, 42 Inf Div, US Army
: 1919 (Lieut John E Soper, joined Freemasons, 'Humboldt Lodge no.32 Young America' p.201 source) [assume not him as California & a Soper family already there)]
: 1920 cen John E 53 physician, US public health service b.Eng (as parents), to US 1887, naturalized 1892; home owner at West 42nd St, Minneapolis, Ward13, Hennepin Co, Minnesota & Mildred 49 b.Minnesota (parents b.Canada/Vermont) to US 1887 & boarder Winifred Table 19 b.S.Dakota (parents b.Min) scan
: 1921 John Elford Soper surgeon in US, PHS stationed at Keith-Plaze Buildings , M'lis; On 12 Jan 1921 he left home 8:30pm to go by train to Sioux Falls SD on official business. He claimed an allowance of $2 for 3� hours; claim refused source
: 1930 cen John E Soper 63 physician, veterans hospital; owns $6,500 home at West 42nd St, Minneapolis, Ward 13, Hennepin, Minnesota; to US 1888, a military veteran; b.Eng (father b.Eng, mother b.Scotland), owns radio, & Mildred 59 {m.c1900} b.Minnesota (parents b.Canada French & b.Vermont) scan
: 1930-40 John at Minneapolis, M'sota, in US Public Health Service*
: 1934 John Elford Soper (c1866-?) 68 physician & Mildred Elvire Soper 64, sailed cabin class on "Duchess of Bedford" (Canadian Pacific Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada arriving Liverpool, Eng 22 Jul 1934; US citizen; Last permanant address USA; Planned future residence foreign country [ie not UK] ; address c/o Bath, 111 Croft Rd, Swindon, 'Hants' [Wilts; home of brother Giles] scan; UK Incoming Register
: 1937 John Elford Soper (c1866-?) 71 physician & Mildred E Soper 61 sailed cabin class on "Montcalm" (Canadian Pacific Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada arriving Southampton, Eng 11 Jul 1937; US citizens, Last permanant address US; Planned future residence Foreign Country [ie not UK]; address 111 Croft Rd, Swindon, Wilts, scan; UK Incoming Register :
: 1938 ?a John E Soper wrote & composed 'Curwen 'Foo Chang' or 'The Chinese Vase', 'an original Chinese operetta in 3 acts' (5s). J Curwen & Sons (London music publishers) from The Musical Times, of Jun 1938: [guessed link]
: 1939 John E Soper (c1866-?) 73 surgeon, Mildred E Soper 60 sailed cabin class on "Montrose" (Canadian Pacific Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada to Liverpool, Eng arriving 30 Jul 1939; US citizen, Last permanant address US; Planned future residence Foriegn Country [ie not uk] ; address 111 Croft Rd, Swindon, Wilts, scan; UK Incoming Register
: 1940 cen John E 73 retired at 818 West 42nd St, Hennepin County, Minnesota; b.c1867 Eng (father b.Eng, mother b.Scotland) & Mildred E 68 b.Minnesota (father b.Canada, mother b.Vermont) source : [mistranscribed 'saper']
: 1954 Dr John Elford Soper said he'd deivered 500 babies without taking mothers to hospital; at alumni reunion, M'sota; p.10 source
: 1955 Dr John E Soper of Hennepin, appointed to board of trustees of M'sota Soldiers Home; Jan 1955 source
: 1956 John Elford d.24 Mar 1956, age 89, 818 West 42nd St, Minneapolis, MI; bur.Fort Snelling National Cemetery, M'lis; Johns tomb b.7 Jul 1866; 'Capt Med Det 151 FA, 42 Div, US Army, WW1' billiongraves.com
: 1964 Mildred d.18 Feb 1964 both at M'lis; bur.Fort Snelling*
: *Mildred Soper one of the signatures on a Red Cross quilt, from 3rd Methodist Church, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; with biog details; Mildred Elvira Lawrence b.3 Jan 1872 Dundas, Minnesota to Wesley M Lawrence (1840-1920) & Nancy Elvira Potter (1842-1918).Lawrence family in '80cen at Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr Frederick George Soper (1898-1980) educated St Asaph Grammar School, St Asaph, N.Wales : 1920 University of North Wales : 1920-36 pos.lectured there : married Frances Mary Gwendolen Richardson, had a son & dau : by 1937 in New Zealand doing wool research : 1950 CBE : 1980 died, Dunedin NZ : from Whos Who

William Soper (c1887-?) b.St Lawrence, Jersey, a gardener, Attested at St Helier, Jersey, 17 Jul 1899; age 18; Joined Aldershot 21 Jul 99; Pvte Royal Army Medical Corps; Served 21 years (S Africa 9y, Mauritius 2�y, Brit Ex Force, France 5y); Discharged as a Sgt Major 1922 : biog

Doctor A Soper (c1853-?) married, foriegner [ie not Brit], sailed on "City of Rome", from New York, arriving Glasgow 1 Jun 1900 UK incoming passenger List, Ancestry.com : [only UK Dr A, Arthur W Soper (1877-1936), but too young?]

Henry Soper, 15 Tavistock Place, Plymouth : Pharmaceutical Journal pub 1900 Google Books snippet : [Henry (1870-1934) '11cen chemist 41unm biog]

Mr Ed Soper English adult, sailed on "Germanic" from Boston, Massachusetts, arriving Liverpool 23 Dec 1900 1900 UK incoming passenger List; ancestry.com

Robert W Soper a nurse for 2 month & 8 day : List of Employees of Northampton Insane Hospital 30 Sept 1900 : source : [not there '01cen (or obvious in others)] : [not Dr Robert Wills Soper who d.Apr 1900]

1901 census

Alberto/Albero Soper 27 doctor, 'non-registered in GA Brith' at 5 Keir St, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland '01cen, b.Canada; [no scan yet]

Frank Arthur Soper 32 surgeon dentist at 2 Hamilton Place , (St Machar), Aberdeenshire, Scotland; b., Eng; Elizabeth H 26 b.Moffat, Dumfrieshire, [but child not there?]; Annette Esther Soper 35 b.Eng; George Edward 19 dental student b.Eng & gen dom serv Mary Wilson 27unm bTurriff, Aberdeenshire; [no scan yet] : [see below]

Isabell Soper 68, a retired surgeon living at & born Plymouth, Dev, b.c1833, '01cen [see above]

William Soper 65 surgeon (working at home) at 307 Clapham Rd, Lambeth '01cen; wife Anne [*Alice?] 49, b.Markham, Notts; 4 children b.Clapham George B S 21unm medical student, Alice 22unm, Hugh T B 18, Horace N 18 a clerk, Eastern Telegraph?, 3 unm servants, parlormaid Florie E Tapecoat 40 [as in '91cen]; cook Alive A Walker 34; housemaid Minnie S Turow 20; scan : [*wife definately 'Alice' in 1881/91 but 'Anne' in '01cen both b.Notts & Alice '11cen] : [William (c1835-1911) surgeon, Guys Hospital, Lon : GP of Reigate/Clapham; retired d.I of Wight]

Dr Richard Watts Soper (1869-1956) in London, Aust, Iowa, Philappines, & Michigan
: Richard m.Isabell Johnson c1891 (she was in '00cen); 2nd m.Carolyn Rulon 1902 Kansas City (d.1909); 3rd m.Dora E c1910; 4th; m.Mable Sarah Harrington 1914 (divorced); 5th m.Alice S Raffert (nee.Scott?) c1915;
: Richard b.9 Jul 1869 London to Dr William Soper (c1835-1911) of Lon & Augusta, biog; (['Watts' maiden name of RWS's grmother] : [photo from ancestry.com, so assume more details there for members?]
- dau Alice Soper b.1894 Iowa [from '00cen]
: '81cen 11 at boarding school Ramsgate, Kent; '91cen not vis [m.Harrison Hoffman from geni.com tree]
: bef.1888 educated public schools, '4y Guys Hospital, Lon & 1y Paris Polytechnic Institute' (from below); visited Australia
: 1888 Richard immigrated to US 16 Mar 1888 : [from 1893 record below & from '00cen; but if so age 18; so when 5y Lon/Paris medical schools?]
: c1891 Richard m.Isabell Johnson (dau of Thomas Johnston & Jane Gibson) [from '00cen; m.not vis UK bmd & geni.com tree]
: 1893 ?a R W Soper at Maud Terrace, London St, E, Newtown : [a Sydney suburb], NSW, Australia; 1893 Sands Directory : [assume Richard who drove cars while in Australia (from below) - but perhaps in US?, so if him, old entry?]
: 1893 Richard W Soper, naturalisation papers from District Court, Cedar Co, Tipton, Ia; 20 Nov 1893, b.Eng; Arrived 16 Mar 1888, witnesses Frank Nochbaur & D A Downing, both of Tipton source
: 1894 Richard W Soper (c1870-?) english 24 married; sailed 1st class on "Teutonic" from New York, NY, arriving Liverpool 24 Jan 1894 scan & scan2 UK incoming passenger List; ancestry.com
: 1894 a Richard W sailed to NY & back 1894
: 1894 Richard Watts Soper educated public schools, 4y Guys Hospital & 1y Paris Polytechnic Institute, to US 1894, bought farm in Cedar, Iowa, farmed 1y as an experiment (an expensive lesson). Worked for Dr Jepson 2y; Army surgeon 2y Fort Brady, Michigan & 2y Philippines; Returned to US, Creston, Iowa, then Conway 1906 as doctor & surgeon. Contributor to journals. On staff of Creston Cottage Hospital. m.Miss Carolyn Rulon of Illinois 1 Nov 1902 Kansas City, Missouri. She d.9 Sep 1909, both reared in episcopal faith. Connected with Independent Order of Odd Fellow & the Knights of Pythias. biog
: 1900 census Richard W Soper 31 physician b.Jul 1869 England (parents b.Eng); immigrated 1888; at Fremont township Mecanicsville town (pt.) & Stanwood town, Cedar, Iowa, US; {m.9y, 1 birth} Isabel Soper 31, imm.1883* b.Scotland (as parents), Alice Soper 7 at school b.Iowa source
: 1902 Dr Richard W Soper 33 of Pickford, Michigan, m.Carolyn Rulon 26 of Manchester, Iowa; b.Illinois; at Pickford, Chippewa, Michigan; parents William Soper & Alice Spencer and David G Rulon & Margaret Persbing; from Mich.M.Records
: 1902 Dr Richard W Soper b.Lon, Eng; d.Hendersonville, N.Carolina; m.Carolyn Rulon 1902 Kansas City, MI (b.Illinois & d.1909). Dr Soper physician of Taylor County [nr Creston], Iowa; later 2y army surgeon, Fort Brady, Mich & 2y Philippines & Iowa; bur.Hendersonville; b.City of London, 9 Jul 1869, studied at Guy's Hosp 4y [his father a Dr there] & later 1y Paris Polytechnic Institute. To new world 1894, 1st Cedar county, Iowa where purchased farm & devoted 1y to agricultural interests rather as an experiment, but proved uneconomic. biog (unknown mention on him in 'The New Soper Compendium', pub.1989 p.559)
: 1904 Dr Richard W Soper duty 12 Jan 1904, 19th Co Phil Scouts's Jan return at HQ dept Binan San Pedro, Laguna Province, Philippine source & Aug return, Serg'ts Hospital Corps at Binan, Laguna, (109 enlisted men) source 9 Sep 1909
: 1909 Rev [Benjamin] Soper & family have been enjoying a visit from his brother, Dr [Richard] Soper of Creston, Iowa, this week; from The Greene Recorder, Greene, Iowa; 28 Jul 1909 : [300m (drive?)] : Dr Soper & wife terminated their visit with the Rev B W Soper & family & returned to their home in Cresco; Aug 1909, from Waterloo, Iowa newspaper : [step-bro Alan Harford Soper (1887-) also imm.to Iowa]
: 1909 wife Carolyn died 9 Sep 1909 : [from above]
: 1910? Dr Richard W Soper rem.Dora E Soper c1910 below
: 1910 Dr R W Soper advertised being in San Fransisco from the parent company Neil Institute, & making demonstrations of The Neal Cure, which can cure drunkards in 3 days. All meals served in patient's rooms; 1409 Sutter St, SF, phone Franklin 1098; from San Francisco Call, 27 May 1910 source
: 1910 Richard W Soper 41 physician b.Eng Mrs Dora E Soper 21 b.US departed Honolulu, Hawaii 17 Sep 1910, 1st Class, on 'SS Zealandia' source; [destination not stated, assume Australia; Zealander a NZ ship]
: 1911 Dr R W Soper replaced by Dr Thomas, sent from the Neil Instintute Company's HQ, Des Moines, Iowa, as physician administering the Neal treatment for alcoholism in Adelaide. Dr Soper left on afternoon express for Sydney to sail on the 9th for Vancouver. The doctor was well liked by patients, his quiet, gentlemanly manner had their confidence. Many will regret they did not know the date of his departure. Mrs Soper left for America about a month ago. 6 May Adelaide Advertiser : On leaving, Soper [there by arrangement with the Government] wrote about treating 300 patients over 6 months source [The Institute, founded Des Moines 1892 & franchised in 63 cities Its 3d Drink Habit Cure was purely vegetable source (Dr Neal accused 1910 by ex.employer, Gatlln Institute of stealing its 'secret formula')]
: 1911 Dr R W Soper 40y 10m medical; arrived Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 30 May 1911 from Sydney, Australia on 'Marama'; b.Eng; residence USA; last residence Dimoines; final destination, Frisco, Cal source
: 1912 Dr Richard W Soper of Luther has bought his 13th motor, a Ford roadster within 5mins at De Moines. He has driven cars in England, Australia & numerous other countries. He declares cars should replace a [horse] team for working doctors 7 Jun 1912 newspaper
:1912 Dr R W Soper of Luther, won sweepstakes trophy In the Little Glidden Tour in his Ford roadster; demonstrating private owners can compete succcessfully in endurance runs with professional drivers, who make the circuit of such events; The Des Moines Register 21 Oct 1912 source
:1912 Richard W Soper 33 physician of Pickford, Mich m.Carolyn Rubon 26 of Manchester, Iowa (b.Illinos) at Pickford, Chippewar Co, Mich, 27 Nov by licence; parents William Soper & Alice Spencer and David Aubon & Margaret Presbing?; by Andrew W Taylor JP; witnesses Harry Stanley of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich & May Rogwis of Pickford, Mich; scan
:1912 Dr R W Soper an automobile enthusiast, obtained much fame in Iowa by a daring trip across the state in daylight, using the new roads. Reported missing from his home & wife in Luther, Iowa for a week 29 Dec 1912 source; [so missing over Christmas, 1m after marriage]
: 1914 Richard Watts Soper 43 m.28 Jul 1914 Mable Sarah Harrington 34 at San Francisco, California (parents William Soper & Edward H Harrington & Sarah Curley) source
: 1914 Dr Richard Watts Soper physician m.Mable S (her 4th m); Mable granted divorce by Supreme Court, as marriage on hospital operating table while under opiates. Desperatly ill, her relatives urged marriage as Soper would provide for her child if she died. Soper had been a suiter for some time. She recovered & immediatly looked for divorce. Dr Soper now an oil salesman; 7 Nov 1914; Pittsburgh Gazette scan : [see article right]
: 19## Dr Richard Watts Soper physician of Iowa license #MD-N-06020 registered [no date] source
: c1915 Dr Richard W Soper m.Alice Rafferty [5th m?; date & 'both age 45' from '30cen; she d.1941 when parents William Scott & Anne Culpepper]
: 1920cen Richard 'S' 50 travelling salesman, oil co; b.Eng; (parents b.Eng); immigrated 1888, naturalised 1893; 9 Jan 1920 census; owning property at Mancisco St, Berkeley, Alameda, California & Alice Soper 40 no job, b.Ohio (parents b.Virginia) source
: 1924 Dr Richard W Soper officer in charge; 20 men repairing Fort Mackenzie; $90k work done this year 13 Dec 1924, [see article right]
: 1927 Dr R W Soper of US Veterans" Bureau, Fort Mackenzie; on committee of 9 dr's ; witness at trial of female murder suspect at Sheridan source
: 1929 Dr R W Soper head of the government hospital at Augusta, witness in court The Palm Beach Post Oct 1929 newspapers.com
: 1930cen Richard W 60 medical officer, in charge, hospital; US military service 'NW' b. Eng; (parents b.Eng); immigrated 1893, naturalized US; '30cen renting home value $55 at U Veterans Hospital, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia; & Alice S 60 b.Ohio source
: 1939 Col. Richard Watts Soper, superintendent of Veterans Administration, Augusta 1929-33. Retired from active duty Jul 9 when as superintendent of Veterans' Facility, Sheridan. Wyo.. is visiting Augusta renewing acquaintances & making arrangements for winter visits In the city. He Intends to bring Mrs Soper to Augusta for 6m a year while summers will be spent in the N.Carolina mountains nr Hendersonvlle. His trim, erect figure & twinkling eyes belieing his 70ys. The Index, Greenwood, SC 23 Aug 1939 source Georgia, with Alice S 60 b.Ohio, (m.age 45) scan
: 1940cen Dr Richard W 70 physician, $72 income, 42h week, US war veteran, b.Eng, immigrated 1893, owner of farm at Horne Shoe Rd, Mills River, Henderson, North Carolina, with Alice S 60 b.Ohio, m.age 65; in 1935 in Wyoming scan
: 1941 Alice Soper, Richard W Soper & Emma Theurer Rafferty (hat) at the Wirtz Home in Horse Shoe, 14 Oct 1941 : [photo right from findagrave]
: 1941 Alice Scott Soper (1875-1947) d.31 Oct 1941, b.15 Jan 1975 Ohio to William Scott & Anne Culpepper; bur.Oakdale Cemetery, Hendersonville, N Carolina findagrave
: 1956 Richard Watts Soper (1869-1956) d.1 Sep 1956 at Veterans Administration Hospital, Oteen, Swannanoa, Buncombe; of carcinoma of prostate (& chronic glomerulonephritis); widowed physician, residence Hendersonville, Henderson, N.Carolina; age 87, b.9 Jul 1869 London, Eng; bur.Oakdale Cemetery, Hendersonville, N Carolina from findagrave & Death Cert source, bur.2 Sep Hendersonville, NC, wife Alice Spencer; son Richard W Soper source

Gerald Morgan Soper (1877-1919) MRCS, LRCP (Eng) surgeon of Totnes
G M Soper passed the examination to practice medicine. The Royal College of Physicians of London : from The Times - 1 Feb 1902 569/746n : admitted as member 7 Mar 572/746n
: [Gerald Morgan Soper b.Totnes Jul>Sep.1877 to Robert Wills Soper (c1842-1910) surgeon of Dartmouth & Ellen F, biog]
: [Gerald Morgan Soper at Epsom College 1891-5. in rugby XV sourcearchive.epsomcollege.org.uk/.../OE.../1855-1899%20%20GP%201.doc]
: ['81cen age 3 b.Dartmouth : '91 & '01cen; not visable or with family]
: [Gerald Morgan (1877-1919), son of Dr R W Soper of Dartmouth, F XV; h XI, 1.1895, St Mary's Hosp, MRCS, LRCP; from Epsom College Register 1891 source]
: [father Robert Wills Soper surgeon of Devon; died 1900, his biog]
: [Gerald Morgan Soper given by widowed mother, the house & garden adjoining Prospect House then occupied by Mr Gilbert 1908]
: [inherited railway shares 1910]
: [inherited Dartmouth house when mother Helen d.1910]
: ['11cen 33unm surgeon & physician in 11 rooms at Newcomen Rd, Dartmouth, Dev; b.Dartmouth with cook Ellen Blackvine 36unm b.Tedburn St Mary & housemaid Amelia Mary Tucker 19 b.Steet, Dev scan] : [Helen Blanche Sydney Soper, 29 private means at 4 ?North Rd?, Plymouth, Dev (perhaps without family)]
: [Medical Register 1913]
: [Dr Soper at Abergavenny inquest; said he examined body W H Nicholls dental surgeon, of Dartmouth who drowned off North harbour embankment while rescue boat was being found; 15 Oct 1915 Abergavenny Chronicle source]
: [at Prospect House, Dartmouth 1915]
: [d.3 Nov 1919 of Prospect House, Dartmouth, Dev; probate London 1 Jan 1920 to Elsie Caroline Wood (wife of Alexander Dunbar Wood), Helen Blanche Sydney Edwards (wife of Kenneth John Dewar Edwards), ; estate �19,204 14s 4d ; from Probate Calender, scan [
: Gerald M Soper (c1877-1919) d.Oct>Dec 1919, Totnes, Devon, age 42]]
: [1919 M F Taylor bought the Dartmouth practice of Dr Soper who died during the influenza epidemic of that year [from Taylor's obit] BMJ Nov 1969]
: [at AGM of the BMA at Cambridge 1920]

George Bertrum Spencer Soper (1877-?) (Bertrum Soper) a surgeon of Lambeth

George Bertrum S Soper birth registered Oct>Dec 1877, Lambeth [bmd]; to Dr William & Auguste Schlesinger, who m.1862; see biog

George B S Soper, at Guy's, granted a diploma of the Society of Apothecaries, London, allowing him to practice medicine : from The Times - 21 Mar 1903 589/746n : ['01cen : George B S Soper 23 a medical student with father William Soper 65, surgeon at 307 Clapham Rd, Lambeth]

seems George Bertram Spencer Soper changed his name to Bertram George Spencer Soper between 1903-5

Bertram George Spencer Soper, LSA, LRCP surgeon of 307 Clapham Rd, Lambeth (father William Soper, Surgeon) m.Frances Annie Ash of Porthcurno (only dau of William Henry Ash, Superintendent of the Eastern Telegraph Station, Portcurno, Cornwall) (Penzance [bmd]) at St Leven, Cornwall, 21 Jan 1905 fathers William Henry Ash & William Soper : Witnesses: Edward Smith Spinner[?], Dorothy Williams, Elizabeth Ash, William Soper : source : & (p.7) & from British Medical Journal Jan 1905 [see mention 1915 below] : [off=chance connection to the London Soper surgeons with Cornwall land 1656 & 1764?] : [a Lieutenant, Medical Corps WW1, see 1916]

Bertram Soper, surgeon, at 307 Clapham Rd, in London Phone Book 1905-1916 [Hop 2573], in 1915 to 193 Clapham Rd

- Philip Francis W Soper b.Jan>Mar 1906 Lambeth; Philip F W Sopar m.Barbara M Rackham Jul>Sep 1935, Marylebone, Lon; m.27 Jul 1935, home 6 Regent Sq, Lon, WC1; [dau of illustrator Arthur Rackham, wiki, who sketched invitation & source : Philip F W Soper of 45a Park Hill Rd, NW3, 'Primrose 0671' Tel Dir from 1938-9 (not in 1945) : Philip Francis William Soper a director 1991 age 86 source; d.1997
- Arthur Bertram S[pencer] Soper b.Oct>Dec 1908 Lambeth; telegraph engineer [as grandfather?] Eng>Argentina 19 1928; >Brazil 1933 & 37 m.Marion B[oyle] Theobald Jan>Mar 1937, Hampstead
- Alice M Soper b.Oct>Dec 1911, Lambeth, Lon (mother nee Ash)

G B S Soper 344 Clapham Rd SW became member of Metropolitan Counties Branch of BMA : BMJ Nov 1909

G B S Soper & F J Lister transfered propery, 41-3 Jeffreys Rd, Clapham to Miss A McCall & M Ritchie in 1909. Previous mortgage 1902 [built c1878, later it was a maternity hospital - perhaps still was in 1909?] ; from Lambeth Property & School Title Deeds - ref. LBL/DALS/15 www.a2a

Dr Bertram Soper succeeded his father Mr William Soper, Medical Officer of the Jews' Hospital & Orphan Asylum, who was presented with a handsome silver rose bowl & a tea & coffee service as a token of the committee�s appreciation of services during 46 years. The presentation was made by Sir George Faudel-Phillips, President : from BMJ Nov 1909

Bertram Soper 33 medical practitioner in 10 rooms at 344 Clapham Rd, Lambeth [Stockwell dist] 1911 census; b.Clapham, Lon; Frances 33 {m.6y, 2 births, both alive} b.Porthcurno, Con; Philip 5 & Arthur 2 both b.Lambeth; brother Horace 28unm electrician (Eastern Extension Co) b.Clapham; with unm servants Andre Rose 23 dom nurse b.Lon & cook Julia Ballam 32 b.Dor scan

Bertrum Soper (of Ventnor) signed a petition objecting to National Insurance Bill plan for capitalisation payments : BMJ May 1911

Dr Bertram Soper, Divisional Surgeon, Police W Division, stated that a witness was unfit to attend to give evidence. Fraud case 25 Apr 1911 Old Bailey

Dr Bertram Soper, police divisional surgeon. Prosecutor was brought to me 21 Jan 6 pm the side of his cheek was inflamed. He had stains of acid on his coat. I attributed his injuries to hydrochloric acid being thrown on him. (at High St, Clapham) 4 Mar 1913 Old Bailey

Dr Bertram Soper, attended his patient Mrs Fitzgerald at Brixton. He gave evidence in a slander case, seeing a letter saying she had an affair with Rev Gent, he suggested a private enquiry. A Police doctor said she was a hysterical & neurotic person. Hearing adjourned : from The Times - 8 Nov 1913 725/746n : [phone book 1905]

George Bertram Spencer Soper appointed temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps 1 Jan 1916 London Gazette 24 Jan: & G B S Soper appointed temp Lieut, RAMC; British Medical Journal 29 Jan

G B S Soper Lieut R A M C Hospital Ship Edani, East Africa : Roll of War Service : from Book of Guy's Hospital men & women in 1914-8 war : www.archive.org

wife Mrs Soper (c1877-?) age 40 female, married, with A M Soper age 6 female, both 'b.s.a.' [British South Africa?], English, sailed 1st class on "Kenilworth Castle", Union Castle Steamship from Plymouth to Cape, S.Africa, 26 Nov 1917 Intended future permanent residence SA; scan from findmypast

George B S Soper, Temp Lt. Army Medical Corps relinquished his commission 9 Feb 1917 '& not as in the Gazette of 22 Jan 1917' (London Gazette 20 Mar)

G B S Soper lieut RAMC Hospital Ship, East Africa; p189; Guys Hospital Reports Book pub.1922

Dr Soper was summonsed 31 Jan 1924 at Durban [S.Africa] when a youngster at a boys camp shot & killed another examining shotgun he thought unloaded. Soper removed the boy to Durban Nursing Home; from 'The Daily Representative' source

Bertram Soper (c1878-?) 46 medical; Last & future permanant address England; address Parkside, Worthing, Sussex, sailed 2nd class on "Windsor Castle" (Union Castle Line) from Netal, South Africa arriving Southampton, Eng 1 Sep 1924; (ship from Durban, SA) scan; UK Incoming Register

children; Arthur Soper 16 schoolboy Alice Soper 13 schoolgirl; address Parkside, Worthing, Sx, future residence 'England BSM'; sailed 3rd class on "Demosthenes" (Aberdeen Line) from Durban, SA to Plymouth (ship from Brisbane arriving Southampton, Eng 7 Jan 1925) [ship from Australia]; scan; UK Incoming Register; [Dr Bertrum's children, why 3rd class?]

son Arthur B Soper cable operator 19 sailed 1st class London to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26 Jun 1928; 6 Poulters Ln, Worthing; Last residence foreign* [ie not Empire]; Intended residence Argentina; scan : [*so seems he worked abroad even before 1928; his grandfather Mr Ash Superintendent, Telegraph Station, Portcurno, Con]

Dr Bertram Soper succeeded his father Mr William Soper, Medical Officer of the Jews' Hospital & Orphan Asylum, who was presented with a handsome silver rose bowl & a tea & coffee service as a token of the committee�s appreciation of services during 46 years. The presentation was made by Sir George Faudel-Phillips, President; from BMJ 1909? [assume c1953??]

son Arthur�Bertram Soper (c1909-?) age 28 & Marion�Boyle Soper 29, sailed from London to Pernambuco, Brazil, 1937 : from findmypast : [Lon to Argentina age 19, 1928]
: '39cen Francis A 61m unpaid dom duties (b.1 Oct 1877) with son Philip F (Phillip 'fpia lnd 24/5/79') 33 incapacitated accountant travelling (b.29 Dec 1905) at Stilgate, Godstone, Sy; Barbara M (will m.Mr.Edwards 'ecm 31/12/65' so) 31 unpaid dom duties (b.17 Jan 1908); line 3 temp withheld & Edward D W Davies b.14 Aug 1927 at school, unm scan
: '39cen George B S Soper 61m medical practioner retired (b.23 Oct 1877) at 4 Union Terrace, Barnstaple, Dev; Marion* 50m independent means (b.29 Mar 1889 '87 nr37a wfc?' [D.of.B change? wfc=Barnsatble]); with Nellie G Lang b,21 Nov 1885 [b.22 Nov 1894 amended 'nr37 wfc c1 120'] boarding housekeeper, widow; Sopers line 2 & 3; & 8 others scan : [?his son Arthur m.a Marion, but too old?]

George B S Soper d.Jan>Mar 1940 Barnstaple reg dist, age 62 [N.Devon]

Frances Annie Soper d.Jan>Mar 1971 Bromley rd, Lon; b.1 Oct 1877

'01cen? Arthur Soper (c1878) Lee, Lon., age 23, b.Lee, Kent : a Medical Accountant, 1901 census

Mr J C Soper (London) wrote unpublished letter to BMJ Oct 1903

Alderman J P Soper (ex major) a guest at Medical Association dinner, Grand Hotel : BMJ Jul 1892

Norman Bowden Soper m.Florence Lizzie L[ouise] Soper Apr>Jun 1903, Lambeth, Lon (bmd)
: N B Soper b.Oct>Dec 1874 Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk; parents Frederick (a dentist) m.Elizabeth 1863 at Brighton, Sx
: his wife Florence L L b.1877, Wandsworth, Lon to John & Jane Elizabeth nee Ward who m. 1867 Lambeth : [what relation were they?]
- Norman John C[hristopher] Soper b.Apr>Jun 1904, Dover, Kt (??a Norman J C Soper m.Plymouth 1931)
- Stephen Frederic E[dmund] Soper b.Jan>Mar 1907, Dover, Kt (?a Stephen F E d.Apr>Jun 1931 Hendon, NW Lon age 24)
: '01cen 26 dental student at Battersea; b.Norwich with family
: '11cen Norman Bowden Soper (c1875-?) 36 dental surgeon, LDS, RCS Eng in 9 rooms at 6 Folkstone Rd, Dover, Kt, b.Norwich, South Heigham, Norfolk; Florence Lizzie Louise Soper 33 {m.7y, 2 births, both alive} b.Battersea, Lon; Norman John Christopher Soper 6; Stephen Frederick Edmund Soper 4 both b.Dover, Kent & gen serv Florence Annie Maria Standing 24unm b.Ramsgate, Kt scan
:1919 Florence L L Soper (c1877-1919) d.Oct>Dec 1919, Canterbury, Kent, age 42
: 1925 Dental Surgeon at 17 Castle St, Dover, 1925 directory
: '39cen Norman B 64 married dental surgeon (incapacitated) (b.7 Nov 1874) at 3 Worcester Gardens, Battersea, Lon; with [sister] Annete E Senior b.21 Apr 1864 unpaid dom duties, widow scan
: 1942 Norman B Soper (c1875-1942) d.Apr>Jun, Upper Agbrigg, Yorks, age 67
: [??family connection? to a Bowden Soper & family sailed to NZ 1852? www.yesteryears.co.nz]

Dr H W Soper of USA sailed cabin class on "Haverford" from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arriving Liverpool 26 Sep 1906 scan UK incoming passenger List; ancestry.com

Dr Soper's report on catarrhal ophthalmia NSSD/81 1910; Typescript; London Metropolitan Archives

Arthur Walrond Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877 Lewisham, Kent
: H C Soper's wife of a son 24 at Trafford Bank, The Glebe, Lee, 'Morning Post' (pub.) 27 Mar 1877, from newspapers.bl.uk

Arthur Watson Soper, 4 at Lee, Kent, '81cen father Henry C B Soper 50 silk mfr '81cen
parents Henry Coles Soper of 31 Spital Sq, Lon m.Clara Dommett, 1866 at Chard, S.set

Arthur W medical accountant 23unm b.Lee with father '01cen; Henry C 71 widower, silk manufacturer at 2 Trafford Bank, The Glebe, Lee, Lon; b.Old Artillery Ground, Lon; Henry W D accountant chartered 33unm b.Lee with servants Rose Hart 30unm cook & Alice Hart 24unm housemaid both b.Ashill, S.set; scan

Arthur W Soper, physician & surgeon, 2 Hamlet Rd, Upper Norwood. In London phone book from 1904 [Sydenham 442] : in 1914 at 206 Anerly Rd : in 1915 at 210 Anerly Rd SE20 : in 1928 H W Drommett Soper, a chartered accountant, was also at 210 Anerley Rd

Mr A W Soper (London) wrote unpublished letter to BMJ Jun & Oct 1904

Mr Soper on 7 man committee to organise entertainments at next Norwood Division AGM : BMJ Dec 1905

Arthur W Soper, Ass Honorary Secretary. SE Branch, Norwood Division meeting at Queens Head, Upper Norwood 9 Mar 1905; from BMJ (same position Dec 05, June 06) : Nov 1907

Dr A W Soper, secretary of the South East Branch of the British Medical Association. It's Norward Division met at the Dreadnought, The Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich : from The Times, 16 Feb 1906 630/746n : [see 1917 below : see Arthur Walrond Soper 1913 below]

Dr A W Soper, 1st class winner 'with 6 strokes was 3 up on bogey' at Medical Golf Tournament 31 May 1906, Cassiobury Pk, Watford : from BMJ June 1906

Arthur W Soper hon sec of 2 Hamlet Rd, Upper Norwood; SE Branch, Norwood Div, meeting at Streatham Hall; 7s inc wine; from British Medical Journal 20 Oct 1906; replying to Hon sec by post card 'will very materially facilitate arrangements'

Arthur W Soper 2 Hamlet Rd, Upper Norwood, Honorary Secretary. BMJNov 1907

A W Soper MRCS LRCP appointed medical officer, Anerley School, N Surrey District : BMJ Sept 1908

A W Soper & brother Henry (accountant); executors to father who d.1908 age 77; estate �7,750

Arthur Walrond Soper, a shareholder of the Great Western Railway. 1908. Named in the 'Probate Book' (90% entrys involve a death, 5% marriage) : details for sale from findmypast.com

Arthur Walred Soper(c1877-?), age 34 medical practitioner: b.Kent at 197 Anerley Rd, Anerley, Penge, Sy; 1911 census with house head brother Harry William Donworth Soper 41 chartered accountant both b.Blackheath; housemaid Susan Rowe 25unm b.Lapford, Dev; parlourmaid 30 b.Upper Norwood & cook Orse Liddiard Rowette 30 b.Marylebone, Lon

Dr Arthur W Soper, the Medical Officer to the North Surrey District Schools, Anerley SE writes (Jun 1914) 'Dental treatment was started in these schools before any other school in England & was instituted by my predecessor, Dr Prangley in 1855� snippet from International Dental Congress 1914 Google Books snippet

A W Soper appointed temporary Captain from temp Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps : BMJ 7 Sep 1917

A W Soper appointed temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps : BMJ 15 Sep 1918

A W Soper Temporary Lieutenant to temporary Captain of Royal Army Medical Corp : BMJ Sept 1918

A W Soper relinquished their Royal Army Medical Corp commissions, a temp Captain, retaining the rank of Captain: BMJ May 1919

Arthur Walrond Soper, Arthur Scott Turner & Cyril Eden Michael, physicians & surgeons, at Oatlands, Anerlev, SE; Woodside, Anerley Rd, Upper Norwood, SE & Trelawne, Crystal Palace Park Rd, Sydanham, SE, the firm of "Soper, Scott, Turner & Mitchel' has been dissolved by mutual consent 30 June 1918. All debts to & owing to Mr Michael of Trelaiwne dated 20 May 1919 (London Gazette 23 May) [biog above]

A W Soper temp Capt RAMC; p189; Guys Hospital Reports Book pub.1922

A W Soper tied with Sir Kenneth Goadby for 1st Class, 1st prize in Medical Golfing Society summer meet at Walton Heath, 100 entries : BMJ June 1927

Arthur Walrond Soper of 'Oatlands' 210 Anerley Rd Anerley, Kent (d,12 Nov 1936). Admin 7 May 1937 to Margaret Emily Gurney & William George Hawkins. Claims on estate by 20 Aug (London Gazette 15 Jun) : [A W Soper b.Apr>Jun 1877 b.Lewisham, Kent]
: Arthur Walrond Soper d.12 Nov 1936, of 210 Anerley Rd, Anerly, Kt; 'administration (with will)' London 7 May 1937 to Margaret Emily Gurney (wife of Russell Gurney), William George Hawkins, certified public accountant; estate �21,084 12s; from Probate Calender, scan [Arthur W Soper (c1877-1936) d.Oct>Dec, Bromley, age 59]

Dr Soper seconded a proposal at Midland Branch: Leicester & Rutland Division : BM Journal Mar 1909

1911 census

Arthur Ernest Soper 41 a dental mechanic with parents at Wandsworth; 53 West Side, Clapham Common

Ernest Soper Sugden 31 dentistry & dental anaisthest at home in 7 rooms at 11 Fawcett Road, Southsea, Hants & Nelly Louise Sugden 34 {m.4y, 0 births} both b.Portsmouth, Hants; & servant Francis Emily Page 24unm b.Glam scan : [Ernest Soper Sugden m.Nelly Louise Stow Lewisham , Lon 1906]

Gerald Moyan Soper (1878-?) head, a surgeon 33 at Totnes, Devon in 1911 census : [Gerald Morgan Soper qualified 1902]

Norman Bowden Soper 36 dental surgeon at Dover, Kent wife Florence Lizzie Louise Soper 33, Norman John Christopher Soper 6 & Stephen Frederick Edmund Soper 4 : [Norman Bowden Soper m.Florence Lizzie L Soper Apr>Jun 1903, Lambeth, Lon (bmd)]

George A Soper (1870-1948) b.2 Feb New York to George Albert Soper (1837-1869) & Georgina Lydia (Buckpit) ; 1895 m.Mary Virginia McLeod; 1899 PhD Columbia Uni, NY; Prominent civil and sanitation engineer, and an epidemiologist of the early twentieth century. His most famous investigation led to the discovery of Mary Malton, dubbed as "Typhoid Mary,"; d.17 Jun 1948 Southampton, NY biog

Dr George A Soper civil engineer at 391 West End Ave, wife Mary V, sons George A & Harvey McL., & 2 servants

Dr G A Soper (8th Inter Cong App Chem 1912, 26 265-6. Apparatus for the Estimation of Disolved Oxygen in Air Google Books snippet

Dr G A Soper director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer : from Guardian Newspaper, 20 July 1925

Dr George A Soper (New York) cancer research BMJ 1929 : 1930 & Berlin conference 1939

- Dr John Elford Soper, surgeon in US Public Health Service, stationed at Minneapolis at HQ, Keith-Plaze Buildings
- John Elford Soper (c1866-?) 68 physician & Mildred Elvire Soper 64; US citizens; Last permanant address USA; address c/o Bath,lll, Croft Rd, Swindon, Hants; sailed cabin class on "Duchess of Bedford" (Canadian Pacific Line) from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada arriving Liverpool, Eng 22 Jul 1934 scan; UK Incoming Register
- John Elford Soper 71 physician, Mildred E Soper 61 sailed cabin class on "Montcalm" Montr�al to Southampton, Eng 11 Jul 1939; US citizens, Planned future residence Foreign Country [ie not UK]; address 111 Croft Rd, Swindon, Wilts, scan; UK Incoming Register [they sailed from Liverpool to Montreal 1937 age 72 & 65]
- John E 73 surgeon, Mildred E 60 cabin class on "Montrose" from Montr�al, Qu�bec, Canada to Liverpool, Eng arriving 30 Jul 1939; US citizen, Planned future residence Foriegn Country [ie not uk]; address 111 Croft Rd, Swindon, Wilts, scan : [m.1896]

Dr Bertram Soper, attended his patient Mrs Fitzgerald at Brixton. He gave evidence in a slander case. He was shown a letter saying she had an affair with Rev. Gent and suggested a private enquiry. A Police doctor said she was a hysterical & neurotic person. The hearing was adjourned : from The Times - 8 Nov 1913 725/746n : [see his marriage 1905]
Bertram Soper, Surgeon, 307 Clapham Road, 'Hop 2806', from 1905-16 : >1910 at 344 Clapham Road : from 1915 at 193 Clapham Rd : [see George Bertram Spencer Soper below & WW1 Royal Army Medical Corps below]

Arthur Walrond Soper, [biog above] in Medical Register 1913, from www.findmypast.com
George Bertram Spencer Soper [see 1913 above] &
Gerald Morgan Soper [became a Dr 1902] : ['11cen ; Gerald Moyan Soper, 33 at Totnes, Dev]

George E Soper m.Jeanne Mildred Thow 4 May 1914, Apr>Jun Elham bmd dist (inc Folkstone)
: George E (1881-1957) b.c20 Jan Heigham, Norwich; to Frederick & Anne who m.1863 Brighton, Sx: father (b.Brighton) a Norfolk dentist assistant '91cen
- Richard George Neal Soper? 15? Aug 1915? Folkstone; b.Jul>Sep Elham; ??a Richard G N m.Margaret Channing Jan>Mar 1940, Richmond, Yorks (bmd)
- Peggy I P Soper b.Jul>Sep 1918 Hartlepool, Durham; m.Edward T Stirk Apr>Jun 1945 Hartlepool W, Durham (bmd)
: '01cen George Edward Soper 19 dental student at (St Machar), Aberdeenshire with brother Frank Arthur 32 surgeon dentist, b., Eng; Elizabeth H 26 b.Moffat, Dumfrieshire; Annette Esther Soper 35 b.Eng; George Edward 19 dental student b.Eng & gen dom serv Mary Wilson 27unm bTurriff, Aberdeenshire; no scan : [not vis '11cen]
: 1912 George Edward Soper military service,High Div? Sig Coy 13 Feb 1912 [see 1916]
: 1913 F & G Soper, firm of surgeon dentists, 20 Golden Sq, Aberdeen; Frank Arthur Soper L D S & George Edward Soper L D S, sole partners, disolved 31 Dec 1913 by retiral of G E Soper; F A Soper will continue the practice at same address Edinburgh Gazette 17 Feb
: 1916 George Edward Soper nr.159826 34y 360d, dental surgeon, married, Previous service, High Div? Sig Coy 13 Feb 1912 : Took oath 12 Jan 1916 at Folkstone : Height 5ft 9�in; weight 166lbs; 37" chest; Physical Development Good; Examined Canterbury 14 Dec 16; to army reserve 15 Jan 16; Mobilised 4 May 17; posted 4 May; discharged 9 Sep 17 to be appointed a commission (Dental Surgeon to AMC) : Granted Commission RHMC 10 Sep 17 : Born Norwich, Norfolk 4 Dec Next of Kin, wife Jeanne Mildred Soper 147 Sundygate Rd, Folkstone; m.4 May 1914 (Jeanne a spinster): Children Richard George Neal Soper? 15? Aug 1915? Folkstone : Scans 234-7
: 1917 George Edward Soper to be Temp 2nd Lt 10 Sep 1917 from London Gazette 3 Oct London Gazette 2 Oct
: 1918 Capt George Soper nr.8610 Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). 'Villa Anna', West Hartlepool, Durham. Absent Voters List, Hartlepool 1918; image 195 scan
: 1925 George Edward Soper "Inveray", Victoria Rd, West Hartlepool (tel.706) LDS RCS Eng 1904 (Royal Dental Hospital, London & Charring Cross); late Capt & Sen Dent Officer, Tees Garrison; Dentist Metropolitan City Police Orphan. Twickenham; Nordrach-on-Dee Consump. Sanatorium & Normansfield Inst Ment Defec, Hampton Wick : from Dental Surgeons Directory 1925
: '39cen George E 58 dental surgeon & Capt RAMC dental asst county director (& ARP [air raid precautions]) (b.17 Jan 1881) at Inveray, Victoria Rd, West Hartlepool, Durham; Jeanne M 47 unpaid dom duties (b.21 Dec 1891); Peggy I 21unm comptometer operator (b.4 Sep 1918) scan
: 1947 George E Soper, LDS, RCS (Eng) (part-time) 1 of 6 [school] dental officers for Durham County 1947; p.95 Education Year Book
: 1957 George E Soper d.Jul>Sep 1957 Wolverhampton, age 76 (bmd)
: 1976 Jeanne Mildred Soper (1891-1957) d.Jan>Mar 1976, Wolverhampton, Lon, age 85; (b.21 Dec 1891)

Dr Arthur W Soper, the Medical Officer to the North Surrey District Schools, Anerley SE writes (Jun 1914) 'Dental treatment was started in these schools before any other school in England & was instituted by my predecessor, Dr Prangley in 1855� snippet from International Dental Congress 1914 Google Books snippet : [see biog]

WW1 Service Medals diven to;
Bertram Soper, Lieutenant..., Royal Army Medical Corps.
Edmund J Soper, Serjeant, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr2211
Edmund James Soper, Serjeant, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr545247
Frank E Soper, Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr119121
Philip E Soper, Private..., Royal Army Medical Corps, nr457393 : ['11cen ?a Philip Edward Soper, 14 at St Thomas, Dev]
Reginald J Soper, Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr86999
W S Soper, Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr-
William Soper, Serjeant..., Royal Army Medical Corps, nr12474 : [enlisted ; 1899, discharged 1921]
William W Soper, Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, nr2333
& not in medal list
George B S Soper, Lieut
Hugh Ross Souper Capt, Royal Army Medical Corps : [m.Isabella Duff Mollison Aberdeen c1873]
J B Soper appointed temporary Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps : BMJ 29 Jan 1916

George Edward Soper appointed a commission (dental surgeon to AMC) : Granted Commission RHMC; to be Temp 2nd Lt, 10 Sep 1917 : [George E Soper m.Jeanne M Thow Apr>Jun 1914 at Elham (inc Folkstone)]

Annie Georgina Soper a nurse missionary in 1916-1921 in Peru & back to UK & returning to Peru 1922 & 1928 : parents William & Ellen Clowes Hobbs m.1866, & b.26 Feb 1883 Reading, Berks. Annie retired to England at 83. Died London 3 Nov 1879

Dr A Soper donated �2 2s to the Imperial Association for assisting disabled naval and military officers 1917 : from www.tlemea.com : [see 1906 above]

Willard B C Soper (c1883-?) 34 doctor '(c)', USA; citizen; Last permanant address USA; sailed 1st class on "St Louis" (American Line) from New York, US arriving Liverpool, Eng 23 May 1917; [page of US doctors & nurses, all 1st; Detachment of Red Cross] scan; UK Incoming Register

E K Soper (b.cApr 1873) nr.O6963; Royal Army Medical Corps; Series, volunteers, 31 Aug 1914 - 4 Jan ?; Reg Royal Army Medical Corps; Ref:2496/44; page.127; Age 45y 2m; Height 5ft 7�in; Weight 126lbs; Chest 34�in, expansion 2�in; Occupation: labourer; Attested 25 Jun 1918; Remarks:1 Weller Cottages Weybridge; Notes:Conscripted men. Recruitment register : [?an Edward Knight Soper b.Apr>Jun 1873, Alderbury, Wilts]

Arthur Walrond Soper, Arthur Scott Turner & Cyril Eden Michael, physicians & surgeons, at Oatlands, Anerlev, SE; Woodside, Anerley Rd, Upper Norwood, SE & Trelawne, Crystal Palace Park Rd, Sydanham, SE, the firm of 'Soper, Scott, Turner & Mitchel' has been dissolved by mutual consent 30 Jun 1918. All debts to & owing to Mr Michael of Trelaiwne dated 20 May 1919 (London Gazette 23 May) [biog above]

Wm B Soper (c1883-?) 36 physician, Helen C Soper 32 French citizens, Last permanant address France; address Brown Shipley & Co, 123 Pall Mall, Lon; sailed 1st class on "Lapland" (White Star Line) from New York, US arriving Liverpool, Eng 28 Apr 1919; scan; UK Incoming Register : [not vis medical Sopers; Willard B above? - seems not as Wm B confirmed below]
: Wm B Soper (c1883-?) 25, sailed 1st class on "Celtic" (White Star Line) from New York, US arriving Liverpool, Eng & Queenstown, Ire 7 Aug 1908; American citizen, scan; UK Incoming Register

F A Soper, of Aberdeen an Ivory Cross Dental Surgeon. (formerly Soldiers & Sailors Dental Aid Fund) Committee 1919 : from www.tlemea.com #6/31 : [Frank Arthur Soper above]

Dr Gerald M Soper (&100s others) attended the AGM of the BMA at Cambridge : BMJ Apr 1920 [see biog 1902]

Soper asked a question after the address was terminated [about drugs being imported cheaply] from Chemist & Druggist pub.1921 ; from Google Books snippet

Frank Arthur Soper 20 Golden Sq, Aberdeen, LDs RCS Eng 1894 (Dent Hosp Lond) : from Dental Surgeons Directory 1925 : [F A Soper above]
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George Edward Soper "Inveray", Victoria Rd, West Hartlepool (tel.706) LDS RCS Eng 1904 (Royal Dental Hospital, London & Charring Cross); late Capt & Sen Dent Officer, Tees Garrison; Dentist Metropolitan City Police Orphan. Twickenham; Nordrach-on-Dee Consump. Sanatorium & Normansfield Inst Ment Defec, Hampton Wick : from Dental Surgeons Directory 1925 : [George E Soper m.Jeanne M Thow 1914, Elham (inc Folkstone)]
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Norman Bowden Soper, c/o Messrs Bradley, Chitty & Scorer, 17 Castle St, Dover, LDS RCS Eng 1902 (Guy's) : from Dental Surgeons Directory 1925 : [36 at Dover '11cen]
: [3 brothers of parents Frederick (a dentist) m.Elizabeth 1863]

Dr G A Soper director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer : from Guardian Newspaper, 20 July 1925

Cecil Edward Soper mentioned in Journal of Mental Science Jan 1925 : [a Cecil Edward b.Jul>Sep 1896 Basingstoke, Hants (perhaps to William/Anne THOMPSON? NSG's tree)]

Dr Abraham Swartout Soper (1847-1926) physician, grocer & inventor; b.Dereham Centre, Oxford Co, Ontario, Can (1 of 13 children of >b>Augustus (1811-95) b.NY? {ggggrson of Henry Soper & Sarah Wattles} & M.Charlotte Veeder, in Ont, adopted dau of Dr.Towne); m.Ruth Oliva Whittaker (1849-1942) 1869, Tillsonburg, Ont (Ruth b.N.Dorchester, M.sex Co, Ont & d.Windsor, Ont. In 1873, family to Michigan 1873, back to London, Ont 1877 & back to Saginaw, Mich 1881. Abraham invented 'Soper Stove Cabinet' & a founder of 'Soper Sanitary Kitchen Co; d.Detroit, Mich 1926 New Soper Compendium; His 7 children in Tree, Ancestry.com

E L Soper (1903-?) female nurse 25 sailed 1st class on "City of Hong Kong" (City Line), Liverpool to Karachi, Pakistan, from 27 Oct 1928; address Didmartin Rectory, Badminton, Glos; Last permanant residence England; Intended future residence India (address with Major Malet 42 wife A W Malet 24, & Master RW 5 & Miss SM 2); scan; from findmypast : [??an Ellen Louisa Soper b.1903, Woolwich, Lon see; ??an Emily Louisa E Soper b.1903, Kingsclere, Hants; ??an Emma Lydia Soper b.1902, Fulham, Lon]

H E Soper elegant mathematical expression about measles epoedemics BMJ Jan 1929
H E Soper of the National Insitiute of Research spoke at Royal Statistical Society : BMJ Jul 1929

Willard B Soper (USA) contributed to the International Tuberculosis Conference, Oslo : BMJ July 1930 & Berlin conference 1939

Dr George A Soper (New York) cancer research BMJ 1929 : 1930 & Berlin conference 1939

Mr Soper supplied statistics that 350 cases of [miner's] nystagmus reported in Yorkshire in 1930 : BMJ Nov 1931

Dorothy�Kilner Souper a medical practitioner sailed 1st class Sudan>Eng 1934, 5 & 6 with a dau, '37 with dau, '38 with 2 dau, '39 with dau's Patricia Dorothy Souper & Alison Margaret Souper : [James L Souper m.Dorothy K Emery 1933, Ware, Herts]

Eva M Soper (c1883-?) 52 nurse, sailed 2nd class on "Comorin" (P & O Line) from Bombay, India arriving London, Eng 12 Jul 1935; Last permanant address India; Planned future residence England; address 84 Hirstbourne Gdns, Barking, [London] (ship from Sydney, Australia) scan; UK Incoming Register

Dr Fred Lowe (1893-1977) b.Hutchinson, Kansas, to Socrates Soper (a pharmacist) & Mary Ann Soper : conducted Hookworm campaign, Brazil 1920-21. Helped largely eliminate malaria from Brazil before WW2. A director of Rockefeller Foundation in Africa & Middle East. Died 1977, Kansas : from biog : [To Brazil 1920, passport]
: Fred L Soper an American epidemiologist & public health administrator who set new standards for disease control worldwide

Fred L�Soper (1893-?) sailed from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to New York on 'The American Legion', 25 Sept 1922. US citizen, residing New York, age 28, married : [Dr Fred�Lowe Soper undertaking hookworm survey there 1920-1 : (sailed again England to Brazil 1938 below)]
: Passport photograph shows Fred Lowe Soper & Juliet S Soper a few weeks after their marriage & a few weeks before they embarked on their first journey to Brazil. A physician b.13 Dec 1893, at Hutchinson, Kansas source
: Photo of Soper preparing for an inspection tour of Maranhao, Brazil : Fred L Soper source
: Dr F L Soper of Rockefeller Foundation, while passing through London, gave an address to London School of Tropical Medicine 24 Feb 1935. He'd worked in S.America. Full page report BMJ
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Fred L Soper (c1893-?) 45 physician sailed cabin class on "Europa" (Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen Line) from New York, US arriving Southampton, Eng 22 Sep 1938; USA; citizen; Last permanant address Brasil; Planned future residence Foreign Country [ie not uk], address Park Lane, London, scan; UK Incoming Register
Fred Lowe Soper 44 physician sailed 1st class on "Cap Arcona'' from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, departing 1938 {Hamburg South American Line, 15,001 tons; 32 passengers; scan & scan2; from findmypast

W H Soper wrote Clinical Gastroenterology 1939 : BMJ Apr 1940

Frederick Arthur Soper (131200) 27 May 1940: to be Lt, The Army Dental Corps (London Gazette 21 Jun) : [Frank Arthur Soper passed dental exams 1894]

David Soper (1911-?) minister 36 sailed one class on "Marine Jumper" from Southampton to New York, USA, departing 11 Aug 1947 United States Line; {other ministers on page with same hotel}; (Rev Soper only line on page crossed out) scan & scan2; from findmypast; [David a professor Eng>US 1954 & 55]

Miss Soper, 4 Highview, Gomshall, Guildford, Surrey will take c/o mail following the destruction of the offices International NEF Google Books snippet
- Clare Soper (Miss), Southernay, Westcott Rd, Dorking, Surrey : Group Study of Jung's Approach to Depth Psychology. Are invited to write for info to;- : box advert in New Era in Home & School; World Education Fellowship. Pub.1955 Google Books snippet

Robert Louis Soper (1908-1973) MRCS, LRCP, DA, CBE, FFARCS, [see RAF] b.15 Feb 1908 Tynemouth, Northumberland, son of Cpt E P Soper RN : Qualified Guys 1933 : Medical Training Depot, Halton 1935 : RAF Medical Dept; Flying Officer (on probation) 1935 ; RAF Hospital, Halton Dec 1935 : Flight Lieutenant 1936 : permanent commission medical branch 1938 : Squadron Leader 1941 Squadron Leader (war subs) 8 Jan 1943 : Temp Wing Cmdr 1944 : Squadron Leader 2 Jun 1944 : temp squadron Commander 1 Jan 1944 : served Bahamas, posted RAF Hospitalk, Halton 1945 : temp Wing Commander 1 Oct 1946 : Fellow Faculty of Anaestatits 1948 : award 1949 : Group Captain R L Soper to Air Commodore 1961: CBE 1967 : Retired from RAF 1973] : [see biog RAF]
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Robert Louis Soper (1908-1973) Obit : d.6 Oct age 65. Son of Cpt E P Soper RN, b.15 Feb, qualified Guys 1933, Joined RAF 1935, permanent commission 1938, Sqr Ldr 1943, served Bahamas, posted RAF Hospitalk, Halton 1945, Fellow Faculty of Anaestatits 1948. Air Commodore 1961, CBE 1967, retired from RAF 1973. Enjoyed photography, widely travelled until ill-health restricted it. Left wife Betty & young son Julian & 2 dau from a previous marriage. BMJ Oct 1973 [scan]

E A Soper, Private, RAMC. [Royal Army Medical Corps] deceased; �24 5s 2d. available for distribution amongst the next-of-kin : Effects from 1947 (London Gazette 29 Dec 1950) : [not in WW2 death list]

Dr Charles Soper of Newcastle collected music for Morris Dancing c1956 : source : source

Frederick Robert Charles Soper, 87 Cemetery Rd, Porth Rhondda, Glam (Porth 464) MB ChB Aber 1957 (Aberd). Mem BMA. Late Pys St��
- J W Soper also mentioned : snippets from Medical Directory 1960 Google Books snippet

Robert Tunnicliff Soper doctor 35 (b.16 Sep 1925), Helene Jolas Soper 29 housewife (b.20 May 1931), Virginia Soper 73 housewife (b.4 Dec 1887), John Tunncliff Soper 8 (b.15 Mar 1952), Robert Macgregor Soper 7 (b.10 Dec 1953), Nathaniel Jolas Soper 5 (b.10 Jul 1955), Helen Elizabeth Soper 2 (b.21 Jan 1958) sailed tourist class on "Newfoundland" (Furness Warren Line), from Liverpool to Boston, USA, departing 23 Sept 1960 address 14 Victoria Ave, G.Crosby, Liverpool 23; Last & intended future residence USA; scan; from findmypast

Alderman Dr Soper was replaced by F L Tonge, labour 1965-67 : Aldermen of the GLC

R J G Soper confered a licence to practice : BMJ Nov 1967
R J G Soper a DPM APP Royal College of Physicians of London : BMJ Aug 1973

R H Soper MB at London : Dec 1968 : 3rd MB BS, London, BMJ June 1969
: R H Soper Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists : BMJ Jan 1972; Diploma Royal College of Physicians of London Feb 1972
: Dr Richard H Soper at Dulwich School 1955-62; a later donor list for school source; Dr Richard & Mrs Sue Soper represented the college at Ypres, France 2013 source

Staff nurse D Soper 'who keeps the service going' Bournemouth & Christchurch Endoscopy Unit, at? Royal Victoria Hospital, Boscombe : BMJ Nov 1977

: Dr David John Sopher (c1935-2015) PhD of Park Rd Surgery, Burgess Hill & Havelock Farm, Ardingly d.5 Jul 2015 at Walstead Place Care Home, age 80; husband of Stella; father of Bridget, Judith, Richard & stepdaughters Karen & Linda; The Argus [transcribed as David John Soper]

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