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18th-century British noble
William Clavering-Cowper 2nd Earl Cowper, 1730s portrait William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier.
Born William Cowper, he was the eldest son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper , by Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell , County Durham . He later assumed the additional surname of Clavering on the death of his maternal uncle.[ 1] [ 2] Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire , a post he held until his death.[ 3] Lord of the Bedchamber to George II .[ 2]
Lord Cowper was twice married. He married firstly Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham , in 1732. After her death in September 1747 he married secondly Lady Georgiana Caroline, daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , and widow of John Spencer , in 1750. He died in September 1764, aged 55, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper . The Countess Cowper died in August 1780.[ 4]
Relatives
Cowper Family Tree[ 5]
William Cowperd. 1664 Martha Master Joyce Hukeley John Cowper Sir Samuel Holled Anne Cowperd. 1664 William Cowper Sarah Cowper Baron Cowper of Wingham in the County of Kent, 1706Earl Cowper and Viscount Fordwich , in the County of Kent, 1718Elizabeth Culling William Cowper 1) Judith Boothd. 1705 2) Mary Clavering Samuel Cowper John Cowper Spencer Cowper Pennington William Cowper Mary Cowper William Cowper William Cowper Spencer Cowper Spencer Cowper John Cowper Ashley Cowper Judith Madan Sarah Cowper William Clavering-Cowper Anne Cowper Spencer Cowper William Cowper George Nassau Clavering-Cowper George Augustus Clavering-Cowper Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau George Augustus Frederick Cowper Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper Florence Amabell Herbert Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert Earldom of Cowper, Viscountcy of Fordwich, Barony of Cowper, Baronetcy of Ratlingcourt extinct, 1905 Auberon Thomas Herbert Nan Ino Cooper Anne Rosemary Palmerd. 1991 Ralph Matthew Palmer b. 1951
Arms
Coat of arms of William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
Crest
A lion's jamb erased Or holding a cherry branch Vert fructed Gules.
Escutcheon
Argent three martlets Gules on a chief engrailed of the last three annulets Or.
Supporters
Two dun horses close cropped (except a tuft on the withers) and docked a large blaze down the face a black list down the back and three white feet viz both hind and the near fore foot.
Motto
Tuum Est (It Is Thine) [ 6]
References
^ Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "Cowper, William Cowper, 1st Earl" Encyclopædia Britannica ^ a b thepeerage.com William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper ^ leighrayment.com Peerage: Cowper to Cutts of Gowran [usurped] ^ L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 87.
^ Gittings, Clare (January 1997). "The hell of living: Reflections on death in the diary of Sarah, Lady Cowper, 1700–1716". Mortality . 2 (1): 26. doi :10.1080/713685853 . ^ Debrett's Peerage . 1869.
