Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929)

Alfred Heaton Cooper was born in Bolton in 1863, the eldest of five children.

His father, William was a cashier in Cannon’s cotton mill, and his mother, Alice, was a weaver there.

Alice could neither read nor write, but she was to prove a driving force behind her children’s upbringing and education, so that they succeeded in careers far beyond their background. Daniel became a photographer and moved to Boston in America, Thomas became an instructor in drawing at Cleveland School of Art, Ohio, USA, William emmigrated as a groom to Australia, and Edith married the regional editor of a French newspaper in Brittany.

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