Edward Copson was a  mathematician from Coventry who was instrumental in the construction of the new Mathematics Institute building at the University of St. Andrews and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924,.
He was born in Coventry, and was a pupil at King Henry VIII School, Coventry. He was instrumental in the construction of the new Mathematics Institute building at the University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924, his proposers being Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Herbert Stanley Allen, Bevan Braithwaite Baker and A Crichtom Mitchell. Edward Thomas Copson FRSE (21 August 1901  16 February 1980) was a British mathematician who contributed widely to the development of mathematics at the University of St. Andrews, serving as Regius Professor of Mathematics amongst other positions. 
