Frederic Roland Cooper was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England on 16 July 1886 and was the son of the architect and surveyor Henry Alfred Cooper (1859-1946). He was articled to Albert Edwin Sawday (1851-1923) in Leicester. He also attended Leicester Municipal School of Art. He subsequently practised as an architect in Kettering and from c.1912 to the 1930s he was in partnership with his father as H. A. Cooper & Son in Kettering.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1921. During World War One he served in the Royal Flying Corps. His address was given as Clifton Villa, Broadway, Kettering, Northamptonshire in 1891; 216 Mere Road, Leicester in 1911; Southdene Headlands, Kettering in 1915; Central Chambers, Kettering in 1923 and 1930; and 67 Tithe Barn Road, Stafford, Staffordshire in 1930 and 1939. He died in Storrington, Sussex on 5 February 1947.
Shoe factory, Kettering, 1913; Co-operatlve Society's premises, Irchester, 1913; Kettering Housing Scheme (part), 1920-22; club, billiard room, etc., Kettering, 1921; additions to two leather dressing works at Kettering, 1922; Kettering U.D.C. Electricity show room, etc., 1924; corn warehouse and offices, Kettering, 1924; clothing factory, Burton Latimer, 1925.
Who’s Who in Architecture 1926. Edited by Frederick Chatterton. London: The Architectural Press, 1926.