Words will never do justice to the life and achievements of Jim Cooper. Not my words, anyway. They could never be good enough.
Nor could they relate the depth of regard and admiration felt for a man whose strength of character and inherent tenacity, cobbled together with an underlying and understated passion for people of substance at all rungs of the social spectrum, made him truly special as a human being. First and foremost.
Yet, despite the inadequacy of words, it’s
