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Duff Cooper
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author. He wrote six books, including an autobiography, ''Old Men Forget'', and a biography of the French diplomat Talleyrand. He wrote one novel, ''Operation Heartbreak'' (1950), which has been republished by Persephone Books. ==Background and education== The only son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff, daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, Duff Cooper was the youngest of their four children. He had royal connections: his maternal uncle, the first Duke of Fife, was married to Louise, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Edward VII, while his mother's maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothy Jordan. Cooper enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London society, Wixenford School〔Cooper, Duff. ''Old Men Forget'' (1953), p. 31〕 Eton College and New College, Oxford.
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