Francis Alfred Cooper, CMG (23 January 1860[1] – 26 May 1933)[2] was a British civil engineer and colonial administrator.
William Waldo Cooper, M.A., Rural Dean of Walshcroft, Rector of West Rasen, Lincolnshire, and Justice of the Peace of the Parts of Lindsey.
[3][4] Cooper joined the colonial service in 1887 when he was sent to Hong Kong as Sanitary Surveyor, Inspector of Buildings, Assistant Surveyor-General, Acting Surveyor-General, and Resident Engineer in charge of Water and Drainage Department.
He was in charge of the reconstruction with engineer H. Champernowne after one of the most devastating rainstorms in Hong Kong history in 1889.
During his service, he built the Yau Ma Tei Pump Station which still exists today.