Alfred Cooper
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Sir Alfred Cooper (1838 - 3 March 1908) was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century, whose clients included The Prince of Wales.
His specialty in venereal disease gave him an unusual access to and perspective on late Victorian aristocratic morality. He was devoted to his wife Lady Agnes Duff (a descendant of King William IV by his mistress, the actress Mrs Dorothy Jordan) and had four children with her, the youngest being Duff Cooper, the prominent British statesman of the 1930s and 1940s. Knighted in 1902 for his services to medicine, Cooper died in 1908.
Sir Alfred Cooper's descendants include the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, and politician David Cameron who is a great-great-grandson.
