Earl Cowper (/ˈkuːpər/ KOO-pər) was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1718 by George I for William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper, his...
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William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, PC, KC, FRS (/ˈkuːpər/ KOO-pər; c. 1665 – 10 October 1723) was an English politician who became the first Lord High Chancellor...
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Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper KG PC DL (11 June 1834 – 18 July 1905), known as Viscount Fordwich from 1837 to 1856, was a British Liberal...
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married Lady Florence Amabel Cowper, daughter of George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper and his wife Lady Anne Florence de Grey Cowper, 7th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell...
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Cowper may refer to: Cowper (surname), people with the surname Earl Cowper, an extinct title in the peerage of Great Britain Cowper, New South Wales,...
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George Augustus Frederick Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper (26 June 1806 – 15 April 1856), styled Viscount Fordwich until 1837, was a British Whig politician....
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Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston (redirect from Emily Lamb (Lady Cowper))
social set, sister of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, wife of the 5th Earl Cowper, and subsequently wife of another Prime Minister Lord Palmerston. Emily...
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about his true paternity). He was the younger brother of George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper and nephew of Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. His father died in...
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George Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738 – 22 December 1789) was an English peer who went on the Grand Tour as a young man, but actually...
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Countess Cowper (née Clavering) (1685 – February 5, 1724) was an English courtier and diarist, and the wife of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper. In September...
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Crudwell by his daughter, Ann de Grey (Countess Cowper), who married George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper. His other titles, unable to pass via a female line...
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Augustus Clavering-Cowper, 4th Earl Cowper (d. 1799), Panshanger Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (d. 1837), Panshanger...
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baptised there on 16 October 1758. His godparents were King George II, the Earl Cowper (his grandmother's second husband) and his great-aunt the Dowager Viscountess...
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married, secondly, William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper. His father was the youngest son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, the First Lord of...
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Lord Dingwall (category Cowper family)
was attainted in 1715 and his titles forfeited. In 1871, Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper, managed to obtain a reversal of the attainder of the lordship...
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1976), author and academic, attended St Albans School William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (c. 1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England. Dark Stares, rock band...
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Countess Cowper is a title given to the wife of Earl Cowper, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. Women who have held the title include: Mary Cowper (née...
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married 27 September 1732 William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper 1709–1764). Her son the 3rd Earl Cowper (1738–1789) became his uncle Lord Grantham's...
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Baron Mount Temple (category Cowper family)
born William Cowper, the second son of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper (see Earl Cowper for earlier history of the family) by his wife the Honourable...
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alcohol-related. On 1 May 1750, his widow married William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper, whose first wife, Henrietta Nassau d'Auverquerque, had died in...
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bishop Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet, MP for Hertford, father of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (c. 1665–1723), Lord...
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William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper 5 March 1715 – 1722 William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex 11 October 1722 – 8 January 1743 vacant William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd...
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Historical Facts, 1603–1688, pp. 8–9 Geoffrey Treasure, ‘Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper (1665–1723)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford...
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George Cowper may refer to: George Cowper (cricketer), Australian cricketer George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper, British politician George Cowper (North Carolina...
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William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was an English peer and...
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Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857...
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Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury (category Cowper family)
Emily Cowper, was the wife of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and the mother of the 8th earl. The daughter of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th...
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5th Earl Spencer, KG, KP, PC (27 October 1835 – 13 August 1910), known as Viscount Althorp from 1845 to 1857 (and also known as the "Red Earl" because...
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Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden. His mother was Lady Frances Elizabeth Clavering-Cowper, daughter of Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper. He was educated at...
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Baron Lucas (category Cowper family)
Countess Cowper (widow of the 6th Earl Cowper), who became 7th Baroness Lucas. On her death, the Barony passed to her son, the 7th Earl Cowper, who became...
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