Sir Alfred Cooper was a fashionable Englishsurgeon 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 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.
