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Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick was a British politician. He served as a Conservative in Parliament (1924–29 and 1931–45). After a stint as secretary of state for war (1935–37), he became first lord of the Admiralty (1937) but resigned to protest the Munich agreement.
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Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (1890 – 1954) was a politician, diplomat, and author, whose courage in resigning from Cabinet over the Munich Agreement and consistency in working for closer diplomatic ties with France were complemented by his skill as a historian and his talent for friendship. Background and education.
Jan 10, 2021 · From October 1939 to March 1940, Conservative member of parliament Alfred Duff Cooper and his wife Diana toured the United States. Their public appearances drew thousands of audience members and provoked the ire of isolationists, but the true importance of the Coopers’ tour lay in the conversations they undertook with prominent Americans.
- Bradley W Hart, Richard Carr
- 2021
Aug 18, 2019 · Born in 1890, Alfred Duff Cooper—always known as “Duff”—attended Eton and New College, Oxford before joining the Foreign Office. He met Churchill in 1914, when the then-First Lord of the Admiralty hosted a dinner party at Admiralty House.
Feb 26, 2024 · Alfred Duff Cooper (1890–1953)—the “Alfred” is silent—is an example of a type the British used once to produce in far greater quantities than now, when he has practically become extinct: the “all-rounder.”
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Duff Cooper, who had the honour of returning to a liberated Paris as the British ambassador, was an unusual holder of that post in that he was a career politician, rather than a diplomat, and one with a mixed record of achievement.
