Edward Cooper was born in London, Wimbledon in 1941. Passed away on 13th of August 2023.
He lived in Wembley since 1976. He is recognized as one of the most prestigious specialists in Spanish castles. Historian and professor at London Metropolitan University. Currently he is a world authority on the subject of castles. He dedicated a large part of his life to the study of fortresses and the history that surrounds them. Among his publications, "Stately Castles of Castile, 15th and 16th centuries" , published in 1980 and "Stately Castles in the Crown of Castile", published in 1991. After retiring from the university in 2007, his research activity did not cease and produced a work as notable as 'The fortification of Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries', published in two volumes (2014) and
'Seven episodes of the rebellion of the Communities of Castile (1520-1521)' (2019),
On May 28, 2008 he received a tribute from his colleagues at London Metropolitan University, Queen Mary College and the Victoria & Albert Museum with the title 'A Life in Castles, Essays in Honour of Dr Edward Cooper'. It was a well-deserved recognition.
Edward's Wembley home is like no other, The pearl of the Metroland, 20 Forty Avenue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dzAc14a-Qs. ) Exterior and interior was painted according to the primary colour palette, striking combinations of blues with oranges, purples with yellows, reds with greens or greens with pinks, a kitchen decorated with geometric vinyl in five basic colours, which had to be specially ordered , to make it as close as possible to Mondrian's Composition, on walls, floors and in each and every one of the daily elements of domestic life such as lamps, clocks, crockery, cutlery, bottle racks, vases, bucket of trash and the entire furniture, including a reproduction of the Red and Blue chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917, one of the first three-dimensional creations associated with the artistic and architectural movement De Stijl. In 2017 and 2018 he opened his home to the public in a program of special interest home visits promoted by Open House London. In two weekends it had 240 visitors.