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COWPER, HON. SPENCER, second son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper PC, Lord Chancellor, and his second wife Mary, dau. of John Clavering, Chopwell, co. Durham; nephew of Spencer Cowper (qv); b.; in school list 1727/8; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 May 1729, aged 16; BA 14 Mar 1731/2; MA 1734; BD and DD 1746; ordained; Rector of Fordwich, Kent, from 15 Apr 1742; Prebendary of Canterbury 21 May 1742 - Jun 1746; Dean of Durham from 14 Jul 1746; m. 19 May 1743 Hon. Dorothy Townshend, dau. of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend KG PC, Secretary of State and Lord President of the Council; d. 25 Mar. 1774. DNB.
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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.