Coppard biography
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A. E. Coppard
English writer
Alfred Edgar Coppard (4 January 1878 – 13 January 1957) was spruce English founder, noted cooperation his small stories, myriad of which had bucolic settings. By self-taught, why not? was championed by Crossing Madox Water and General Bennett, in the midst others, featureless his lifespan, and optional extra recently soak Frank O’Connor, Doris Author and Author Banks. Awful of his stories were dramatised espousal British overseer in picture 1960s take 1970s.
Life
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Oliver Coppard
British politician (born 1981)
Oliver James Coppard (born 9 June 1981) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician serving as Mayor of South Yorkshire since 2022.[1] He was re-elected in 2024.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Coppard attended Silverdale School and High Storrs School.[3]
He was awarded a bachelor's degree in Politics and Parliamentary Studies from the University of Leeds.[4] During his tenure at Leeds, he interned in the office of Dick Gephardt, then the Democratic Leader in the US House of Representatives. Coppard later interned in the office of Meg Munn when she was Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley.[5]
Political career
[edit]At the 2004 Sheffield City Council election, Coppard was one of three Labour candidates who unsuccessfully contested Graves Park.
Coppard volunteered for the Obama campaign for the 2012 US presidential election. He was director of the remain campaign in Yorkshire and the Humber, and Lincolnshire for the 2016 European Union referendum.
Coppard stood in Sheffield Hallam at the 2015 general election, against then Deputy Prime MinisterNick Clegg.[6] He failed to defeat Clegg but achieved a swing of over 16% from the Liberal Democrats to
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Up to the age of six I lived in a farmhands cottage on top of a hill called Sire’s Hill near Oxford which was opposite Wittenham Clumps . A place that Paul Nash visited and painted. It is a beautiful area even now despite the remains of Didcot power station. It has an iron-age fort and Roman remains and was the first place the monks stopped off at in their journey up the Thames to Oxford. Dorchester Abbey that they founded actually predates the University. Ironically Edwin Smith photographed the inside of the church at Dorchester which I found out in my recent research for the Edwin Smith Poem.
My father gave up working on that farm as we were so poor he would breed rabbits to sell etc. But I think we were all really happy there. Lots of space. We then moved to a council estate in Didcot (small town 15 miles from Oxford) and my dad started working for a building firm. Not so much space but a secure house etc. We regularly visited my Nan and Gramps tied cottage on the High Street in Long Wittenham as children.
My dad’s stepfather was the country grandfather I talk about in my early poems. He was a farm labourer all his life and up until the 1950s used to plough with shire horses. I have this photo of my dad on plough aged about three between my grandad