Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Cowper first Earl Cowper
Standard Name: Cowper, William Cowper,,, first Earl
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | Mary Clavering
was married in secret to William Cowper
, an eminent lawyer twenty years her senior, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and recently appointed Lord Chancellor of Britain. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | William, Earl Cowper
, husband of MCC
, was examined before a committee of the House of Commons
on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies. In 1722 the actual Jacobite conspirator Christopher Layer
, while under investigation... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | William, Earl Cowper
, husband of MCC
, died in his mid-fifties, five days after catching a severe cold in travelling from London to his country house. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William, first Earl Cowper |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Lady Cowper | Lady Cowper bore Sir William four sons in six years. They were educated at boarding schools, apparently not by their mother's choice, and she was also not happy about the early marriages contracted by the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Countess Cowper | With her husband, Lord Cowper
, suddenly under suspicion of harbouring Jacobite sympathies, MCC
gave way to anxiety about the outspokenness of the Court diary she had been keeping since October 1714: she destroyed most... |
Textual Production | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
's Occasion'd by the Death of Mr John Hughes (translator of Letters of Abelard and Heloise, 1713, and a protégé of JCM
's uncle the first Earl Cowper
) was in Ashley Cowper |
Textual Production | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
wrote her will two months to the day after the death of her husband, Lord Cowper
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
and her husband
exchanged affectionate letters from before their marriage. Some years before George I
succeeded to the English throne she established contact with his chief minister, Baron Bernstorff
, by letter. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Mary Countess Cowper | At the turning point of George I
's accession, Lord Cowper
established his position in the new political landscape through A Treatise on the State of Parties (otherwise known as An Impartial History of Parties... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Lady Cowper | The marital letters are much taken up by quarrelling. SLC
's letters to her eldest son
are also, especially in earlier years, full of complaint. She depicts her daughter-in-law Judith (Booth) Cowper
, for instance... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Piers, Sarah, Lady. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott, 1714. 12 |
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