| Clive Forster-Cooper | |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1880 |
| Birth Place: | London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Palaeontology |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Sir Clive Forster-Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum in London. He was the first to describe Paraceratherium, also commonly known as Indricotherium or Baluchitherium, the largest known land mammal.[1]
Forster-Cooper was born on 3 April 1880 in Hampstead, London, the second child and only son of John Forster Cooper and his wife Mary Emily Miley. His maternal grandfather, Miles Miley, was an amateur botanist and naturalist, and encouraged Clive Forster-Cooper in his interest in natural history. He was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, Rugby School.[2] In 1897 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and took a BA in 1901 and MA in 1904.