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Cowper (surname)
Cowper (pronounced ''Cowper'' or ''Cooper'' depending on family) is a surname of several persons: * Austen Cowper (1885–1960), South African cricketer * Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer * Sir Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician * Charles Cowper Jr. (1834–1911), Australian politician, son of Sir Charles Cowper Snr. * David Scott Cowper (born 1942), British yachtsman * Douglas Cowper (1817–1839), British painter * E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), British author * Edward Alfred Cowper (1819–1893), British mechanical engineer and metallurgist * Frances Maria Cowper (née Madan; sometimes known as Maria Frances; 1726-1797), British poet * Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper * Frank Cowper (1849–1930), British yachtsman and author * Frank Cadogan Cowper (1877–1958), British artist * Gerry Cowper (born 1958), British actress * Mary Cowper (1625–1784), British courtier and diarist * Nicola Cowper (born 1967), British actress * Peter Cowp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Cowper
Nicola Jane Cowper (born 21 December 1967) is a British actress. Cowper is the younger sister of twin actresses Gerry Cowper and Jackie Cowper. Cowper made an impression as a film actress in her early career, but she is best known for her work on British television, in particular her role as D.S Helen Diamond in BBC's '' Dangerfield''. Career Cowper's career began in the 1980s. She made early appearances on television in programmes such as ''Break in the Sun'' (1981), ''S.W.A.L.K'' (1982), ''A Game of Soldiers'' (1983) and ''Minder'' (1984) and then went on to appear in several feature films. Her film credits include '' Winter Flight'' (1984), ''Dreamchild'' (1985); ''Underworld'' (1985); '' Lionheart'' (1987) and ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1989). Leading film directors David Puttnam and Francis Ford Coppola tipped Cowper "for the top" after she appeared in the American films ''Lionheart'' and ''Dreamchild''— her performance in ''Dreamchild'' has been described as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Cowper
Earl Cowper ( ) was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was 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 the County of Kent, at the same time as he was given the earldom, also Peerage of Great Britain and with similar remainder. He was the great-grandson of William Cowper, who was created a Baronet, of Ratling Court in the County of Kent, in the Baronetage of England on 4 March 1642. The latter was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baronet. He represented Hertford in Parliament. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the aforementioned William Cowper, the third Baronet, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Cowper in 1706 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cowper (other)
William Cowper can refer to * William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist * William Cowper (doctor) (1701–1767) English doctor and antiquarian * William Cowper (anatomist) (1666–1709), English anatomist; eponym of Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid * William Couper (bishop) (1568–1619), Scottish bishop * Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet, MP for Hertford, father of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper * William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (c. 1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England * William Cowper (Archdeacon of Cumberland) (1778–1858), Anglican priest in Australia, father of the below * William Cowper (Dean of Sydney) (1810–1902), Anglican priest in Australia, son of the above * William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811–1888), British politician and courtier * William Cowper William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Cowper
Stephen Cambreleng Cowper (born August 21, 1938) is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth governor of Alaska from 1986–90. He was governor during the 1989 ''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill. Cowper is the CEO of Steve Cowper & Associates. He has also served on the boards of multiple energy-related companies in the US and Canada. Early life and career Cowper was born in 1938 in Petersburg, Virginia, to Stephanie (née Smith) and Marion Cowper. He was raised in Kinston, North Carolina. He received bachelor's and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and after serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and Army Reserve, he worked as a maritime lawyer in Norfolk, Virginia, for three years. Cowper moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1968 and served as assistant district attorney for rural Alaska and Fairbanks. In 1970, Cowper went to Vietnam and worked as a freelance correspondent throughout Asia. Upon returning to Alaska, he wrote a political column fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Cowper (priest)
Spencer Cowper (1713–1774) was Dean of Durham Cathedral from 1746 to 1774, known also for his early contributions to meteorology and his liking for poetry and music. Life and work Cowper was the younger son of William Cowper, the first Earl and the first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and his second wife Mary Clavering. He was the cousin of the poet William Cowper. Along with his religious duties as Dean of Durham, he kept a naturalist's journal which included records of the local meteorology Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting. The study of meteorology dates back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not .... Some of Cowper's sermons survive, as does a collection of his letters published in 1956. Relatives References External links Deans of Durham Parson-naturalists British meteorologists 1713 births 1774 deaths Younge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer Cowper
Spencer Cowper (23 February 1670 – 10 December 1728) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1727. Early life Cowper was the second son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet of Hertford, and his wife, Lady Sarah Cowper, the diarist, and daughter of Samuel Holled, a London merchant. He was educated at Westminster School, called to the bar in 1693. In 1690 he was made controller of the Bridge House Estates with a residence at the Bridge House, near St Olave's Church close to what is now Tooley Street Southwark. The Sarah Stout Affair Cowper served on the Home circuit, and was acquainted with a Quaker family called Stout in Hertford, who had supported his father and brother during elections in the area. The Stout's daughter Sarah fell in love with him, even though he was already married to Pennington Goodere. One evening at the Spring assizes in March 1699, Cowper went to Sarah's home to pay her the interest on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Cowper
Sarah Cowper (, 14 February 1644 – 3 February 1720) was an English diarist. Early life Sarah Holled was born in Eastcheap in London as the only child of merchant Samuel Holled. Both her parents died before she was 20. As the only heir to her parents' estate, she inherited roughly £1000. On 11 April 1664 Sarah married a lawyer, William Cowper, who at the end of that same year inherited the baronetcy Cowper, as well as properties in London and Kent from his grandfather. The couple would go one to have four sons, notably among them William Cowper and Spencer Cowper. However, the couple were extremely unhappy, with Sarah commenting on their complete emotional incompatibility by saying "Never met two more Averse than we in Humour, Passions, and Affections; our Reason and Sense Religion or Morals agree not". Her husband's income was inadequate for his rank, and so the couple maintained only modest rented homes in London, with a county seat of Hertford Castle, which at that time wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cowper
Robert Cowper or Robert Cooper (c. 1465–1539/40) was an English composer. He studied music at the University of Cambridge and sang as a lay-clerk there in the Choir of King's College. He was later appointed master of the choristers of the household chapel of Lady Margaret Beaufort. He composed both sacred and secular music, including masses, motets and madrigals. The Gyffard partbooks contain a four part setting of ''Hodie'' composed by Cowper with John Taverner and Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one o .... References Notes * External links * English classical composers Renaissance composers Sacred music composers 16th-century English musicians 16th-century English composers Classical composers of church music English male classical compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Middleton Murry Jr
John Middleton Murry Jr. (9 May 1926 – 31 March 2002) was an English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. Early life Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, Violet Le Maistre. His mother contracted pulmonary tuberculosis when Murry was 8 months old, and died just before his fifth birthday. Murry was nicknamed "Colin" by his grandmother, which later served as a semi-pseudonymous pen name for some of his books. Murry attended Rendcomb College, a progressive school in Gloucestershire. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1944 and applied to join the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, but was turned down on the grounds of poor eyesight and was never in combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he graduated in 1949. He met Ruth Jezierski and married her in 1949. The couple had two daughters. Murry died in 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife. His daughters said he died of a brok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cowper
John Middleton Murry Jr. (9 May 1926 – 31 March 2002) was an English writer who used the names Colin Murry and Richard Cowper. Early life Murry was the son of the writer John Middleton Murry and his second wife, Violet Le Maistre. His mother contracted pulmonary tuberculosis when Murry was 8 months old, and died just before his fifth birthday. Murry was nicknamed "Colin" by his grandmother, which later served as a semi-pseudonymous pen name for some of his books. Murry attended Rendcomb College, a progressive school in Gloucestershire. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1944 and applied to join the Fleet Air Arm as a pilot, but was turned down on the grounds of poor eyesight and was never in combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he graduated in 1949. He met Ruth Jezierski and married her in 1949. The couple had two daughters. Murry died in 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife. His daughters said he died of a broke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phipps Coles Cowper , a mall in Buckhead, Atlanta
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Phipps may refer to: *Phipps (surname) * Phipps, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Phipps Bridge tram stop, a halt on the Tramlink service in the London Borough of Merton * Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, buildings and grounds set in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Phipps NBC, a brewing company based in Northampton, England *Phipps Plaza Phipps Plaza is a shopping mall in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. It is located at the intersection of Peachtree Road ( SR 141) and Lenox Road (SR 141 Connector), adjacent to the Phipps Tower office building. The mall is currently ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
