Spencer Cowper

Spencer Cowper, MP and barrister was born in 1670, the second son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet of Hertford, and his wife, Lady Sarah Cowper, the diarist, and the daughter of Samuel Holled, a London merchant. William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper Lord Chancellor of England was his elder brother.

Read more about Spencer Cowper:  Education, The Sarah Stout Affair, Career, Family

Famous quotes containing the words spencer and/or cowper:

    “Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

    “Oh! for a closer walk with God,
    A calm and heav’nly frame;
    A light to shine upon the road
    That leads me to the Lamb!”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)