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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-29
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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.