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  • Duff Cooper
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  • Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 18901 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 Talleyrand, the 18th and 19th century French diplomat. He wrote one novel, Operation Heartbreak (1950), which has been republished by Persephone Books.
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honorific suffix
  • GCMG DSO PC
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term start
  • 1944
  • 1935-11-22
  • 1941-07-20
Reason
  • German occupation of France during World War II.
Birth Date
  • 1890-02-22
Last
primeminister
Spouse
Name
  • The Viscount Norwich
Caption
  • Duff Cooper in 1929 by Lafayette © National Portrait Gallery, London
Alma mater
  • New College, Oxford
Party
  • Conservative
Title
term end
  • 1948
  • 1937-05-28
  • 1943-11-11
death date
  • 1954-01-01
Successor
Before
Years
  • 1924
  • 1928
  • 1931
  • 1934
  • 1935
  • 1937
  • 1940
  • 1941
  • 1944
  • 1952
After
Order
honorific prefix
  • The Right Honourable
Nationality
  • British
Predecessor
abstract
  • Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 18901 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 Talleyrand, the 18th and 19th century French diplomat. He wrote one novel, Operation Heartbreak (1950), which has been republished by Persephone Books.
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