Death
He died on 9 September 1987, just six days short of his 91st birthday. In his obituary of Cowper in The Sydney Morning Herald, Francis James described him as being "surpassed by none in his breadth and liberality of mind, integrity and undeviating, selfless care for the public interest. Through the growing pains and uncertainties of our nation in this century, he had few equals".
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