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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.