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William Cowper was a key player in the transition from the Stuart through to the early Georgian period in a number of roles including that of the first Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain in 1707. William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper was the son of Sir William Cowper, Bart., of Ratling Court, Kent. He was educated at St Albans School.
Mary, Countess Cowper (née Clavering) (1685 – February 5, 1724) was an English courtier and diarist, and the wife of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper. Biography [ edit ] In September 1706, William Cowper secretly married the beautiful 20-year-old Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell, Durham after his first wife died in 1705. [2]
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper. by and published by John Smith, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt mezzotint and drypoint, 1707 On display in Room 11 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
COWPER, WILLIAM COWPER, 1st Earl (c. 1665–1723), lord chancellor of England, was the son of Sir William Cowper, Bart., of Ratling Court, Kent, a Whig member of parliament of some mark in the two last Stuart reigns. Educated at St Albans school, Cowper was called to the bar in 1688; having promptly given his allegiance to the prince of Orange on his landing in England, he was made recorder of ...
Despite their partisan assault on him, Cowper was sufficiently above party considerations himself to join Freman and Caesar on 13 Jan. 1705 on the drafting committee of a place bill, though the union of Country ideals may soon have dissolved, for William may have been the ‘Mr Cowper’ who was granted a fortnight’s leave of absence on 5 Feb. 1705, possibly on account of his still-thriving ...
Bequeathed to the 6th Earl Cowper by Henry Cowper, a distant cousin, or by Tewin Water, his guardian; 1 presented by Francis, 7th Earl Cowper, 2 1899. 1 Note on file, without source. 2 1834-1905, Trustee of the NPG 1869-74. He told Cust he wished to present the portrait since he ‘already [had] three portraits of him’.
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier. Born William Cowper, he was the eldest son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper , and his second wife Mary , daughter of John Clavering of Chopwell , County Durham .
