Lord Cowper

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St Albans - Notable People
... Francis Bacon (1561–1626) Sarah Churchill (1660–1744) William Cowper ( 1665–1723) Thomas S ... Bacon was also styled "Viscount St Albans" from 1618 Nicholas Bacon (1509–1579), Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I, built Old ... Peasants' Revolt of 1381 Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (Lord Grimthorpe) (1816–1905), lawyer, amateur horologist, and architect best-known locally for rebuilding the west front of St Albans ...
Earl Cowper
... Earl Cowper (pronounced "Cooper") was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain ... created in 1718 by George I for William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper, his first Lord Chancellor, with remainder in default of male issue of his own to his younger brother, Spencer Cowper ... Cowper had already been created Baron Cowper of Wingham in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of England on 14 December 1706, with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body, and was made Viscount Fordwich, in ...

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    “I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day,
    I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,
    And, turning from my nursery window, drew
    A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “‘Will ye go with me, my hinny and my heart?
    Will you go with me, my dearie?
    And I will swear by the hilt of my spear,
    That your lord shall no more come near thee.’”
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