Hello dobfarm
Think you're suggesting that George was not a Cooper by trade, but ran or owned the Cooper business?
I had enquired at the Leeds Yorks Record Office re Bankruptcy files, as they were usually handled at the Leeds Court
but a search gives us James of Gray's Inn Place. [London].I'll look at TNA and ask London Metopolitan Archives, Middlesex, about a file?
Alphabetical List of Bankruptcies and Dividends
May 19, 1807, to June 20, 1807, inclusive.
[Extracted from the London Gazette]-----The Solicitors' Names are between Parenthesis.
The Universal Magazine, Volume 7
"Gibson R. Selby, Yorkshire, cooper, (James, Gray's - Inn - place)."https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z2QAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA573&lpg=PA573&dq=Cooper+Selby+1807&source=bl&ots=64Z57OJJA_&sig=Tb0eKXVTO0JrHas6KYcI7pxetV0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi47MalrerLAhVFlxoKHcEACgEQ6AEIKzAHThe Selby Directory of 1800 (downloaded copy) says
Gibson Richard, Cooper, Wren-Lane.Wonder if Richard Gibson of Selby:-
a) was an owner or occupier of premises in the Selby Land Tax 1806/7, or
b) who owned his premises?
As there might be a Deed Memorial at Wakefield, I could request a paid search for?
Kind regards, Mark
EDIT:
The only James, Gray's Inn Place, found so far on TNA, in 1810 was:-
John James 11 Grays Inn Place, Grays Inn and according to Fire Insurance he was a Wine Merchant, later a "gent".
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_st=adv&_aq=John%20James%20Grays%20Inn%20place&_ep=John%20James&_dss=range&_sd=1800&_ed=1820&_ro=any