Painter in oil and watercolour, and teacher, born in Gorakhpur, India. In 1912 he moved to England to live with his grandfather and to be schooled. After two years with the Westminster Bank Hooper studied in 1930–1 at Slade School of Fine Art, moving to Royal Academy Schools under Tom Monnington in 1931–5. There he won two gold medals, a travelling scholarship and the Rome Scholarship in Painting, which gave him two years in Rome after a few months in Madrid, 1935–8. During World War II Hooper served in Air Raid Precautions and was invited to join the Pilgrim Trust’s Recording Britain project. In the 1950s Hooper designed posters for General Post Office, Esso, Shell and other companies. By then he had begun to teach: from 1943–5 at Watford Grammar School; 1945–77 at Brighton Polytechnic department of fine art; and from 1948–77 he lectured for Workers’ Educational Association, affiliated to London University.