William Cowper first Earl 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.

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...

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.

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...

Another and earlier William Cowper was JCM 's uncle. He rose in the legal profession to become Lord Chancellor, and was rewarded with a peerage as first Earl Cowper. JCM was called after his first...

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...

MCC wrote her will two months to the day after the death of her husband, Lord 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. Her correspondence...

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...

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

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...

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), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...