Major Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper (18 November 1887 – 22 March 1961) was a British businessman who for more than two decades was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and director of the Bank of England.

He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh before attending Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Aberdeen University, studying law.

To a ministry which had been set up only a short time before the war he brought qualities which were in special demand and those who worked with him and under him knew they could rely upon his support for bold rather than cautious decisions.He was knighted in the 1944 New Year Honours for his wartime service.

[4] After the First World War, he was engaged in financial and industrial reorganisation for some years, and, in 1931, he was appointed a member of the National Economy Committee.

But under his governorship its prosperity increased steadily and his resignation, which was announced immediately after his sixty-fifth birthday, was greatly regretted.Ashley Cooper held a number of other positions at various organisations.