The eldest son of P B Shelley Cooper, of Larnokk, Hale, and was educated at the University of Manchester and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He displayed a strong leaning towards natural history and was for a time Assistant Demonstrator in Zoology and Pathology at Owens College. After some experience as House Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary he settled in practice at Altrincham, where in due course he became one of the best-known and busiest practitioners in North Cheshire. In 1923 he was appointed Hon Consulting Surgeon to the St John Ambulance Association. At one time President of the Manchester Clinical Society, he was an enthusiastic member of the Medical and Pathological Societies of Manchester. The joint library of the Manchester Medical Society and the University Medical School owed much to his co-operation. He was a great reader of medical books, and occasionally contributed a well-considered note on some clinical problem to a medical journal. He died on October 10th, 1925, after an illness of eight days, of septic poisoning contracted in the course of his duties. He practised at Glenthorn, The Downs, Bowden, Altrincham, but died in a Manchester Nursing Home.