Neill Cooper-Key

Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key (26 April 1907{{cite web |title=Sir Neill Cooper-Key (Hansard) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/sir-neill-cooper-key/index.html |website=api.parliament.uk |access-date=12 November 2024}} – 5 January 1981) was a British Conservative politician. He was member of parliament for Hastings from 1945 until his retirement in 1970.{{cite web |title=Members after 1832 |url=https://membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org/members/3586 |website=membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=12 November 2024}}

The son of Captain Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key, C.B., M.V.O.,{{cite book |title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage |date=1973 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=2273 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Debrett_s_Peerage_Baronetage_Knightage_a/0SIMAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Neill+Cooper-Key+%22edmund+moore%22&dq=Neill+Cooper-Key+%22edmund+moore%22&printsec=frontcover |access-date=12 November 2024 |language=en}} of Landford, Hampshire by his wife Florence (née Wigram), Cooper-Key was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Dartmouth. He served in the Irish Guards during the Second World War, and alongside his later political career was a governor and committee member of the RNLI and director of Associated Newspapers Ltd, the Aberdeen Investment Trust, and Price Brothers Ltd. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1960.

On 11 January 1941 he married Hon. Lorna Peggy Vyvyan Harmsworth (24 October 1920 – 18 June 2014), elder daughter of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere. They had two sons and two daughters; the second – but only surviving – son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943–1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is the actress Isabella Calthorpe.

He lived at Burnt Wood, Battle, East Sussex.