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{{Short description|English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century}}
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{{Infobox medical person
| name               = Sir Alfred Cooper
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRCS}}
| image              = Alfred Cooper Vanity Fair 30 December 1897.jpg
| caption            = Cooper as caricatured by Spy ([[Leslie Ward]]) in [[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]], December 1897
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=y|1838|01|28}}
| birth_place        = Bracondale, [[Norfolk]], England
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|1908|03|03|1838|01|28}}
| death_place        = [[Menton]], France
| spouse             = {{marriage|[[Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff#Marriage and family|Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff]]|1882}}
| children           = 4, including [[Duff Cooper|Duff]]
| education          = [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]]
| relatives          = [[John Julius Norwich]] (grandson)<br>[[Rupert Hart-Davis]] (grandson)<br>[[Deirdre Hart-Davis]] (granddaughter)<br>[[Adam Hart-Davis]] (great-grandson)<br>[[Duff Hart-Davis]] (great-grandson)<br>[[David Cameron]] (great-great-grandson)<br>[[Agnes Duff, Countess Fife]] (mother in-law)
| profession = [[Surgeon]]
| field = [[Venereal disease]]
| work_institutions = [[British Army]]
| specialism = 
}}

'''Sir Alfred Cooper''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCS}} (28 January 1838 – 3 March 1908) was a fashionable [[England|English]] [[surgery|surgeon]] and clubman of the late 19th century whose patients included [[Edward VII|Albert Edward, Prince of Wales]]. 

Cooper was born in [[Bracondale]], Norfolk, England, the son of William Cooper, barrister, by his wife Anna, née Marsh. He was educated at [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]]. As a doctor and surgeon, his speciality was in [[venereal disease]], which gave him an unusual degree of access to, and perspective on, late [[Victorian era|Victorian]] aristocrats and their notions of morality.

He was appointed a [[Lieutenant colonel (British Army and Royal Marines)|Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel]] to the [[Loyal Suffolk Hussars]] on 17 May 1899. The Hussars was a [[Yeomanry]] regiment, which was embodied for active service in [[South Africa]] during the [[Second Boer War]] (1899–1902).<ref>Hart′s Army list, 1902</ref> Cooper was the senior medical officer to the regiment until he resigned his commission on 8 November 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27492 |page=7093 |date=7 November 1902}}</ref>

He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] for services to medicine in the [[1902 Coronation Honours]],<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Coronation Honours |date=26 June 1902 |page=5 |issue=36804| }}</ref> receiving the accolade from King [[Edward VII]] at [[Buckingham Palace]] on 24 October that year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27494 |date=11 November 1902 |page=7165 }}</ref>

== Marriage and issue ==
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Cooper became the third husband of [[Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff]], daughter of [[Agnes Duff, Countess Fife]], and was devoted to her all his life. Lady Agnes Duff's first husband, Viscount Dupplin, was the eldest son of [[George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull|the 12th Earl of Kinnoull]] (issue one daughter), and her second husband had been a certain Herbert Flower (brother of [[Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea]]) (no issue). 

Lady Agnes Duff was the youngest daughter of [[James Duff, 5th Earl Fife]] by his wife, [[Agnes Duff, Countess Fife|Lady Agnes Hay]], herself the daughter of [[William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll]] and granddaughter of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV]] by his mistress, the actress [[Dorothea Jordan|Dorothy Jordan]]. 

Lady Agnes Duff's brother, [[Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife]], was the husband of [[Louise, Princess Royal]], the eldest daughter of King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]].

Cooper and his wife had four children together, including [[Duff Cooper]], 1st [[Viscount Norwich]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Cooper, Sir Alfred|magazine=Who's Who|year=1907|volume= 59|page=379|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA379}}</ref>

== Death ==
Cooper died in [[Menton]], [[France]], in 1908.

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