Daniel Hooper (New Jersey) Daniel Hooper (New Jersey) Major Daniel Hooper (died 1700/01) was a judge and politician in New Jersey. Daniel Hooper was a native of Christ Church, Barbados, and spent his time between New Jersey and his native island. On September 12, 1679, Daniel Hooper was commissioned as a member of a County Court for Elizabethtown and Newark, which would later evolve into Essex County. He is mentioned in the commission as being of the East New Jersey Provincial Council, but no other record survives of his tenure on the Council. He would later return to Barbados, as he is referred to
Newbury bypass that the building of the road was to proceed and then resigned half an hour later. The bypass led to immense protests in an attempt to halt the felling of trees (including mature oak, ash, and beech) and the start of building work. A number of protesters were veterans from the Twyford Down protests over the building of the M3 motorway. Others were students, unemployed people, part-time workers and people taking time off from work to protest. In 1994, a local comprehensive school teacher, Helen Anscombe, founded "The Third Battle of Newbury", an umbrella group of organisations against the bypass.