COWELLE, ---; b.; adm.; KS; left 1549 (Acts of Chapter).
COWES, JAMES, son of Edmond Cowes, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc. Pub., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), matr. 29 Jan 1646/7, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1654); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 28 May 1648; Chaplain, Christ Church 1650; subscribed the Engagement 1650/1; ordained; Rector of Luddenham, Kent, from 10 Apr 1661; Perpetual Curate, Oare, Kent, from 1668; d. 1674.
Cowie, Anson Gordon, only son of William Clarke Cowie, of Brockley, chairman and managing director of the British North Borneo Company, by Amy Constance, daughter of Charles Durdant Pead, of Margate, Kent; b. July 19, 1890; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1909; served in Great War I; Capt. 20th Batt. London Regt. June 1, 1916; m. May 23, 1916, Kathleen Frances, eldest daughter of Hubert Schmitz, of Niton, Isle of Wight.
COWLEY, ABRAHAM, seventh and posthumous child of Thomas Cowley, St. Michael Le Querne, London, citizen and stationer; b. 1618; adm.; Min. Can. 1630; KS; author, Poetical Blossoms, dedicated to his schoolmaster Lambert Osbaldeston (qv) and published 1633; while in College he also wrote Love’s Riddle, a pastoral comedy, not published until 1638; failed to obtain election to either university 1636; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 Apr 1636, scholar (by dispensatory letter from King) 14 Jun 1637; his Latin play, Naufragium Joculare, was played before the University by members of Trinity Coll. 2 Feb 1638; BA 1639/40; MA 1643; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 30 Oct 1640; ejected by Parliamentary Visitors 1644 and went to Oxford, taking up residence in St. John’s Coll.; went abroad 1646; employed in diplomatic services by exiled Royalist court; returned to England as Royalist spy 1656; author, Miscellanies, 1656; MD Oxford 2 Dec 1657 (incorp. Cambridge 11 Jul 1664); withdrew to France, but returned at Restoration; applied for Mastership of Savoy 1661, unsuccessfully; one of original fellows of Royal Society; his works were first published in a collected form in 1668, when Several Discourses by way of Essays in Prose and Verse appeared for the first time; some hitherto unpublished Verses on the Happy Birth of the Duke of York are printed in the Elizabethan, v, 54-5, viii, 281; d. 28 Jul 1667, and buried in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
COWLEY, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1750 (Hart's); in school list 1754.
Cownie, Ivor Thomas William, son of W. B. Cownie, of Muswell Hill, Middlesex; b. July 29, 1895; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); left Dec. 1912; served in the 28th Batt. of the London Regt.; obtained a commission in the R.G.A. July 7, 1916; Lieut. Jan. 7, 1918; 17 May 1980.
COWPER, EDWARD, second son of James Cowper, Lincoln’s Inn and Essex; b.; adm.; KS 1676; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1680, aged 17, scholar 22 Apr 1681, matr. 1681; adm. Middle Temple 23 Jan 1682/3; buried 14 Jul 1688.
Cowper, James Denis, son of William Cowper, med. practitioner, of Harrow; b. 25 July 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (A); left July 1938; d. Dec 1974.
COWPER, JOHN, son of Spencer Cowper (b. 1669, qv) and his first wife; bapt. St. Olave’s, Southwark 8 Aug 1694 (IGI); at school under Freind (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll. , ii, 178); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1711, scholar 26 Mar 1713, matr. 1711/2, resided to Mich. 1713; DD 1728; migr. to Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1714; BA 1715/6; MA 1718; Fellow of Merton Coll. 1715-22; ordained 1718; Rector of Great Berkhamstead, Herts. , from 1722; Chaplain to King George II (occurs 1748, 1751); patentee for making out Commissions, Commissioners of Bankruptcy (Chamberlayne 1748); m. 1st, Anne, dau. of Roger Donne, Ludham Hall, Norfolk; m. 2nd, 8 Jan 1740/1 Rebecca, widow of Obadiah Marryat, St. Clement Danes, London, and dau. of --- Moxon; d. 10 Jul 1756.
COWPER, SPENCER, younger son of Sir William Cowper, Bart. , MP, and Sarah, dau. of Sir Samuel Holled, Kt. , a London merchant, and brother of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor; b. 1669; at school under Busby (Howell, State Trials, xiii, 1180); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Feb 1685/6, matr. 1686, resided to Mich. 1687; adm. Middle Temple 7 May 1687, called to bar 26 May 1693; Home Circuit; tried with three others at Hertfordshire Assizes Jul 1699 for murder of Sarah Stout, a quakeress, but acquitted; there was practically no evidence of the crime against the accused, and the trial is a curious illustration of the crass stupidity of mens’ minds when blinded by religious and political fanaticism (Howell, State Trials, xiii, 1105-1250); adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Oct 1713, Bencher 12 Feb 1715, Treasurer 28 Nov 1715; Bencher, Middle Temple 23 Oct 1718; MP Bere Alston 1 Dec 1705-10, Truro 1715-27; one of the managers of Sacheverell’s impeachment, 1709-10; Attorney-General to Prince of Wales 12 Oct 1714-27, to Duchy of Lancaster from 1727; KC 5 Jan 1715; Chief Justice of Chester 17 Jul 1717-27; a Judge of the Common Pleas (and Serjeant-at-Law) from 24 Oct 1727; m. 1st, 7 Feb 1687/8 Pennington, dau. of John Goodere; m. 2nd, 25 Jul 1728 Theodora, widow of John Stepney; d. 10 Dec 1728. DNB.