Justice Spencer Cowper

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Spencer Cowper, MP and barrister was born in 1670, the second son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet of Hertford, and his wife, Lady Sarah Cowper, the diarist, and the daughter of Samuel Holled, a London merchant. William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper Lord Chancellor of England was his elder brother...

...His first wife Pennington died in November 1727.

Cowpers eldest son William Cowper was clerk of parliament and the father of General William Cowper of Hertingfordbury Park (MP).[1] He died on 14th Feb 1740. His second son, John, was the father of William Cowper the poet. His third son Ashley was also clerk of parliament and a barrister, and the father of Theodora Cowper (with whom the poet fell in love) and Harriot Cowper (Lady Hesketh). He died in 1788. Cowper's only daughter was Judith Madan, a poet. She married Colonel Martin Madan (MP), Groom of the Chamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and M.P. for Wootton Bassett.

Cowper died on 10 December 1728 and was buried at the family seat Hertingfordbury where a monument to him by Louis-François Roubiliac was erected."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'Spencer Cowper', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 16 November 2012, 21:33 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer_Cowper&oldid=5233...> [accessed 3 January 2013]

Other References

• The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970

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