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  Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (22 February 1890 - 1 January 1954), known universally as Duff Cooper, was a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.
The son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper, and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of the Duke of Fife), he was the youngest of four children and the only son, and enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London Society, Eton College and Oxford.
Duff Cooper himself was the subject of a biography by John Charmley, and a major British literary award, the Duff Cooper Prize, was established in his name.
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 Duff Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The son of fashionable society doctor Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife), he was the youngest of four children and the only son and enjoyed a typical gentleman's upbringing of country estates, London society, Eton College, and New College, Oxford.
The Coopers' marriage was fraught with infidelities, notably Duff's affairs with the Anglo-American Singer sewing-machine heiress Daisy Fellowes, the French novelist Louise Leveque de Vilmorin and the Anglo-Irish socialite and fashion model Maxime de La Falaise.
Duff Cooper was the subject of a biography by John Charmley and a British literary award, the Duff Cooper Prize was established in his name.
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 Duff Cooper's Haig
Duff Cooper was in no doubt that he was writing about a genuine hero, and he declared the story of Haig's life an 'epic drama', about which it was a privilege to write.
Duff Cooper argues that the Battle of the Somme was 'the furnace wherein are forged the armies of victory', which honed and hardened the British Army into the fighting force which 'two years later formed the backbone of the force that smashed the Hindenburg line'.
In justification, Duff Cooper echoes Haig's argument that the British had to be taught to accept the inevitable losses of a war of attrition on the Western Front.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Duff,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
A lawyer and judge in British Columbia, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1906, and in 1933 he became chief justice, serving until his retirement in 1944.
Football: Premiership Interview: Old-fashioned leftie seeks role in the modern world; Chelsea's winger Damien Duff may be a throwback to an era when football was in fl and white, but it has helped him keep a refreshingly uncomplicated outlook.
Duff raising her voice onstage to strike while iron is hot 'Cinderella' star spins Hollywood success into pop music career
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 tpotd - the paragraph of the day - Talleyrand (1932)
Alfred Duff Cooper (1890-1954) – known always as Duff Cooper – was the son of Alfred Cooper and Agnes Cecil Emmeline Flower.
Cooper became British ambassador to France in 1944 and was kept in that position even after Labour won the general election of 1945.
Duff and Diana Cooper moved to Paris in 1944 and continued to live in France for the rest of his life.
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 Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cooper, (Alfred) Duff, 1st Viscount ...
He was elected Conservative member of Parliament in 1924 and was secretary of war 1935–37, but resigned from the Admiralty in 1938 over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy.
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick, 1890-1954, British statesman and diplomat.
Elected to Parliament as a Conservative (Unionist) in 1924, he served as secretary of state for war (1935-37) in the coalition cabinet and was first lord of the admiralty in 1938 when he resigned in protest against the Munich Pact.
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 Janus: The Papers of Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount Norwich)
This allowed Duff Cooper to leave the Foreign Office in July 1924 and his adoption as Conservative candidate for the (two-member) constituency of Oldham where he was elected an MP.
In March 1931 Duff Cooper was again elected to the Commons after a by-election in the St George's Division of Westminster.
Cooper was seen as one of the few members of the Cabinet who were supportive of Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 and was prepared to contemplate the possibility of a morganatic marriage.
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 AllRefer.com - Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick (British And Irish History, Biography) - ...
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick, British And Irish History, Biographies
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick[kOO´pur, koop´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1890–1954, British statesman and diplomat.
Elected to Parliament as a Conservative (Unionist) in 1924, he served as secretary of state for war (1935–37) in the coalition cabinet and was first lord of the admiralty in 1938 when he resigned in protest against the Munich Pact.
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 Duff Cooper (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
A member of the Conservative Party, Cooper was elected to the House of Commons in October 1924.
Cooper and was appointed as First Lord of the Admiralty in May, 1937.
Duff Cooper rose from the seat traditionally kept for the retiring, or resigning, the third corner seat immediately below the gangway - it was here I heard first Sam Hoare make his famous Mea Culpa over sanctions, and later Anthony Eden.
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 TIME.com: "Break Up Germany!" -- May 6, 1940 -- Page 1
Anthony Eden's stanch friend Alfred Duff Cooper, M. P., who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest against appeasing Adolf Hitler at Munich, last week roused London with speeches and press interviews on a keynote long soft-pedaled by the Government.
Duff Cooper got his opportunity thus to sound off against the German people when he was suddenly called on to pinch-hit for Winston Churchill at a meeting of the Royal Society of St. George.
Don't let there be any mistake about it." Nonetheless there was such stiff public criticism of Duff Cooper's attitude that two days later he hastened to amplify it: "I think it is essential to destroy [the] German armed forces and not let them have weapons again.
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 thePeerage.com - Captain Edward William John Manners and others
She married Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, son of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff, on 2 June 1919 in London, England.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (M) b.
He was the son of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff.
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 Duff Cooper
This was followed by posts as Financial Secretary to the Treasury to the Treasury (June, 1934 - November, 1935) and Secretary of State for War (November, 1935 - May, 1937).
Cooper retired from the House of Commons in 1945 and became the Ambassador in Paris.
Duff Cooper, first lord of the admiralty, resigned and declared that Great Britain should have gone to war, not to save Czechoslovakia, but to prevent one country dominating the continent 'by brute force'.
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 Duff genealogy
Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, the Duchess of Fife.
Father of 36 children, he is said to have been complimented by King Geroge II on the addition he had made to His Majesty's subjects in Scotland.
Married, 1709, Catherine Duff of Dipple (born 1683, died 1758, see above), daughter of William Duff of Dipple (1653-1752, son of Alexander Duff, son of Adam Duff of Clunybeg) and Jean Gordon of Edinglarrie.
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 Diana cooper - Lady Diana Cooper: Information from Answers.com
Diana Cooper is known for humble-looking yet labor-intensive works in which bits of acetate and Publication Information: Article Title: Diana Cooper.
Diana Cooper was born in Greenwich, CT in 1964 and moved to New York in 1987.
Lady Diana Cooper Born: 1892 08 29 Died: 1986 06 16 Biography Lady Diana Cooper was a socialite who made the film, The Miracle in 1912 and then went.
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 Emery Reves, Retrospect & Prospect - The Churchill Centre
Four months later, when Churchill was Prime Minister, and only two weeks after the fall of France, when Britain was being portrayed in the world as beaten, he wrote to the new Minister of Information, Alfred Duff Cooper: "I have long thought very highly of Mr.
As a result of Churchill's letter to Duff Cooper, Reves was asked by the British Government, on 9 July 1940, to go to New York and help build up the British propaganda organisation in both North and South America.
Churchill knew that Reves would be an effective instrument of the democratic message, with its call to a recognition of the need for vigilance and cooperation ('Cooperation' was the name of Reves' bureau in Paris before the war).
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 (Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-1954), Politician, diplomat and writer
Politician, diplomatist and author, Duff Cooper was a Conservative MP (1924-9, 1931-45) and in 1936 was Secretary of State for War.
He had been for some years a close friend of the Prince of Wales and with Baldwin's approval he was consulted by the new King during the abdication crisis.
(Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich; Diana, Viscountess Norwich (Lady Diana Cooper)
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 Duff Facts - Fame & Success
Fame is often a result of acclaim, as in Tiger Woods the celebrated golf pro, however in some instances fame is a result of a blunder, as in William Hung of American Idol fame.
Hilary Duff might be a Hollywood superstar now, but do you remeber where she got her Lizzie McGuire - Hilary Duff.
A lawyer and judge in British Columbia, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1906, and in 1933 he became chief...
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 The New Criterion — Duff Cooper’s game book
hat Alfred Duff Cooper had very small feet strikes me as one of the most emblematic facts about him, but I’m hard pressed to say just how.
Certainly it’s tempting to quip, in view of his prodigious adulteries, that this helps explain why he was rarely on them, spending as much time in the sack as the grandes horizontales of his beloved Paris.
One might also remark that Cooper nevertheless left big shoes to fill: His too-early death robbed the diplomatic world of an ornament, and the wide circle of his friends and mistresses (to say nothing of his adoring wife) of a magnetic personality.
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 TIME.com: Heartbreak House -- Oct. 27, 1958 -- Page 1
Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy.
Lady Diana Duff Cooper is able to evoke a world as fragile and opulent as an Edwardian conservatory filled with orchids, and still face the time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in.
One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France.
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 Wodehouse At War
The BBC didn't want to get involved in what they saw as a personal attack but were later ordered to by Duff Cooper, who at the time was, I believe, the Minister of Information.
Cassandra and Duff Cooper knew that the speeches were completely innocuous (they were told so by the governors of the BBC, which had monitored the first two of the broadcasts) so they didn't publicise them; instead they resorted to innuendo and implied that PGW was "like" Lord Haw-Haw.
He got back at Duff Cooper too - once when Gussie Fink-Nottle is copped (for wading in the Trafalgar Square fountain looking for newts -- after being "encouraged" to do so by Catsmeat Pirbright), he gives his name as "Alfred Duff Cooper".
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 AllRefer.com - Alfred Duff Cooper (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Alfred Duff Cooper (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Alfred Duff Cooper, British And Irish History, Biographies
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick
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 BBC News | UK | The census and Big Brother
Moss, a committed socialist, was the first member of his family to go to grammar school and then to university, where he emerged as a gifted mathematician.
During the Second World War, he worked for the Ministry of Information and was one of a number of social scientists known as "Cooper's Snoopers" - named after the wartime Minister of Information Alfred Duff-Cooper.
Their job was to keep tabs on the population to make sure that morale was not slipping and, also to gather accurate information on people in order in order to plan for food rationing and the war effort.
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 NPG 4560; Diana, Viscountess Norwich (Lady Diana Cooper); (Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich
NPG 4560; Diana, Viscountess Norwich (Lady Diana Cooper); (Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich
(Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-1954), Politician, diplomat and writer.
Diana, Viscountess Norwich (Lady Diana Cooper) (1892-1986), Actress and writer; wife of 1st Viscount Norwich.
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 Genealogy page 2
There are several spellings for his name, including Carduff, Carr, Duff, Cardiff and Duff.
One source says Duff was his name but that one of his two wives was named Carr and he added that to his last name.
Anna Maria Carduff and her younger sister Elizabeth ran away from home because of a cruel stepmother, who among other things, supposedly cut Maria’s long blond curly hair and sold it for making wigs.
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 Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert: A Primer
Although it is clear that Sickert did have a fistula of some sort, there is no documentary evidence to suggest that it was on his penis.
Indeed, the fact that he was treated by Dr. Alfred Duff Cooper of St. Mark's Hospital suggests otherwise.
Both Dr. Cooper and the Hospital were known for performing surgery of the rectum, anus and vagina.
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Cooper, Alfred Duff ALS The Christopher Sykes Papers
Cooper, Austin -Weigel pseudonym The Rev. Gustave A. Weigel, S.J. Papers
COOPER, SUSAN - REFERENCE John G. Deedy, Jr.
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 School of Slavonic and East European Studies - Guide to Archive Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
A version of this file is also available without diacritics.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890-1954), politician and diplomat, served as War Minister 1935-1937 and First Lord of the Admiralty 1937-1938.
The album in this collection was presented to Duff Cooper in 1938 by a Czechoslovak school, Prof.
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