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Name: COOPER, Daniel Ernest
Birth Date: 30.8.1868 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
Death Date: 30.1.1929 Sotik
First Date: 1915
Last Date: 1929
Profession: Partner with Mayence Bent in the Stanley Hotel
Area: Kericho, 1925 Sotik, 1914 Lumbwa
Married: In Southwark 1915 Amy E. Harrison b. 1870
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Drumkey, Red 22, Advertiser, EAHB 1906, Gazette, Medals, EAHB 1907, Leader14, Red Book 1912, Red 19
War Service: EA Intelligence DEpt.
General Information:
SE - D.E. Cooper - Stanley Hotel - July 1907
Drumkey 1909 - Vice-President, Nairobi Town Sports Club - D.E. Cooper
Red 22 - Justice of the Peace - Sotik
Advertiser - 29/10/1909 - Partnership between Daniel Ernest Cooper and Mayence Bent under the style "Stanley Hotel" dissolved. Now under the sole name of Mayence Bent.
EAHB 1906 - D.E. Cooper, Nairobi
Gazette - 7/4/15 - Liable for Jury service, Lumbwa
North - D.E. Cooper - 'Mining Expert' (EAS) arr. Mombasa from Bulawayo Nov 1902, at Mombasa 4-12-1902; 1905 Nairobi
Medals - East African Intelligence Department - Daniel E. Cooper, Agent
EAHB 1907 - D.E. Cooper - Nairobi (Stanley Hotel)
Red Book 1912 - D.E. Cooper - Kericho
Gazette 19/10/1921 - Dissolution of Partnership between Daniel Ernest Cooper and Philip Guy carrying on business as Farmers, Planters and General Traders at Sotik under the style or firm of 'Cooper and Guy' by mutual consent. Business now being carried on by Daniel Ernest Cooper, Philip Guy and Richard Knight Philpott as 'Cooper Guy and Philpott' from 1/10/1921
Gazette - 12/11/1919 - Register of Voters - Lake Area - Daniel Ernest Cooper - Farmer - Sotik
Red Book 1919 - District Committees - Lumbwa - D.E. Cooper
Red 25 - JP, Sotik.
Hut - partner with Guy.
Hut has Douglas E. Cooper a 1904 1922 JP Sotik < Nairobi
Gazette - 4/6/1929 - Probate and Administration - Daniel Ernest Cooper late of Sotik who died at Sotik on 30 January 1929
Gazette - 1/5/1906 - Liquor License - D.C. Cooper, Stanley Hotel, Nairobi
Old Africa - 22-8-13 - Christine Nicholls - Mayence Bent also put in a land grant application at Fort Smith (29.6.1903), and there she made farm products, which she advertised in the East African Standard. Her ad for her butter ran ‘Fort Smith Butter. Mrs Bent Nairobi. It Takes the Cake. It would Keep for Ages but People don’t Give it a Chance’. But the farm could not provide a living and May took a job in 1902 as a clerk in a store owned by Tommy Wood in Victoria St, Nairobi (now Tom Mboya St). The store served as a butchery, tea room, hardware shop and tailor’s (May was the dressmaker). Above it people could stay in four simple rooms with calico walls, called the ‘Victoria Hotel’ but there was never enough space and May saw an opportunity. She went into partnership with Daniel Ernest Cooper and opened a 15-bed boarding house, the Stanley Hotel (1.4.1904) in Victoria Street. It was a wooden building, of two storeys and soon had a liquor licence (March 1905). The following year a fire destroyed it. May moved her guests to a temporary building, under a tarpaulin. A permanent building was erected by 1913 where the Sarova Stanley now stands at the corner of Kimathi Street and Kenyatta Avenue (formerly Sixth, then Delamere Avenue).