COWIE, Hugh (eld. son of Alexander Cowie of Auchterless, co. Aberdeen). b. June 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 26 wrangler 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1860; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1862, bencher 26 May 1880; a revising barrister for home circuit 1868; recorder of Maldon and of Saffron Walden 11 Aug. 1873 to death; admitted barrister M.T. 13 April 1875; chancellor of diocese of Durham, Jany. 1876; sec. to Criminal code commission 1878; Q.C. 16 Dec. 1882; reporter in Court of Exchequer for the Law Journal Reports 1864–71. d. Ythandale, Wimbledon park near London 20 July 1886.
COWIE, Robert. b. Lerwick, Shetland Islands 1842; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edin. 1866; author of Shetland descriptive and historical 1871, 3 ed. 1879. d. 8 May 1874.
COWLE, William. b. 6 Feb. 1802; played with success leading characters at various London theatres from 1822; a favourite actor at Birmingham; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 7 Nov. 1838, one of its annuitants Feb. 1862 to death. d. 92 Camden St. London 22 March 1885.
COWLEY, Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1 Earl (eld. child of Henry Wellesley, 1 baron Cowley 1773–1847). b. Hertford st. London 17 July 1804; attaché of embassy at Vienna 1 Oct. 1824; succeeded 27 April 1847; minister plenipotentiary to Berne 29 Feb. 1848; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Frankfort 8 Feb. 1849, to Germanic confederation 7 June 1851; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852; ambassador extraord. and plenipotentiary to French republic 5 Feb. 1852 to July 1867; joint plenipo. with Earl of Clarendon at conference of Paris Feb. to March 1856; signed treaty of peace with Russia 30 March 1856, with Persia 4 March 1857; created Earl Cowley and Viscount Dangan 11 April 1857; employed on a confidential mission to Vienna Feb. to March 1859; signed at Paris, treaty of commerce between England and France 23 Jany. 1860; retired on a pension of £1700 16 July 1867; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1853; K.G. 3 Feb. 1866. d. 20 Albemarle st. London 15 July 1884. bur. parish church, Draycot near Chippenham 19 July. Times 16 July 1884 p. 9, col. 5.
COWLING, John. b. 1802; educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wr. and 1st Smith’s prizeman 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow of St. John’s coll. 6 April 1824; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1827; deputy high steward of Univ. of Cam. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Univ. of Cam. 1845 to death. d. 28B Albemarle st. London 12 Dec. 1855.
COWPER, George Augustus Frederick Cowper, 6 Earl (eld. son of 5 Earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. George st. Hanover sq. London 26 June 1806; cornet Royal horse guards 28 April 1827, lieut. 1830; lieut. 31 foot 13 Feb. to 6 March 1835; M.P. for Canterbury 31 July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834; under secretary of state for foreign department 13 Nov. to 17 Dec. 1834; succeeded 21 June 1837; lord lieut. of Kent 21 April 1849 to death. d. at house of governor of the gaol, Maidstone 15 April 1856. Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain iii, 7–17 (1854).
COWPER, Sir Charles (son of Ven. Wm. Cowper 1780–1858). b. Drypool, Yorkshire 26 April 1807; secretary of Church and school lands corporation at Sydney 1826–33 when corporation was dissolved; sheep breeder on the Murray river 1833; member for co. Cumberland of legislative council 1843–50, for Durham 1851–56, for Sydney 1856–59, for Liverpool Plains 1869–70; colonial sec. N.S.W. 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, 7 Sep. 1857 to 26 Oct. 1859, 9 March 1860 to 15 Oct. 1863, 3 Feb. 1865 to 21 Jany. 1866 and 13 Jany. 1870 to 15 Dec. 1870; agent general for N.S.W. in London 6 Dec. 1870 to 31 May 1871; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1872. d. Eldon road, Kensington, London 19 Oct. 1875. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 44–7.
COWPER, Ebenezer. Articled to Mr. Lloyd, engineer, Gravel lane, Southwark, London; partner with his brother Edward Cowper; spent his life in putting up printing presses in England, Scotland, Ireland and on the Continent on the Cowper-Applegath model; the first edition of the Waverley novels was printed at Edinburgh off a Cowper machine; erected 12 machines at Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1830; Cowper machines although superseded by the Walter press for printing newspapers are still used for printing books; erected the printing machinery in the Bank of England. d. Harbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 14 Sep. 1880 aged 77. Engineering 24 Sep. 1880 p. 257; Iron 24 Sep. 1880 p. 244.
COWPER, Edward (brother of the preceding). b. 1790; ironmonger at St. Mary, Newington Butts 1816; printer in Nelson sq. 1818; partner with his brother-in-law Augustus Applegath; they jointly invented the four-cylinder printing machine and erected it at the Times office 1827; partner with his brother Ebenezer as machine makers, their machines were widely used throughout Europe; invented an ink distributing machine; professor of manufacturing art and machinery at King’s college, London 1846 to death. d. 9 Kensington park road, London 17 Oct. 1852. Wyman’s Bibliography of printing (1880), 14, 146.
COWPER, Henry Frederick (2 son of 6 Earl Cowper 1806–56). b. 18 April 1836; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; contested Tamworth, Oct. 1863 and Herts. March 1864; M.P. for Herts. 24 July 1865 to Nov. 1885. d. Panshanger, Hertford 10 Nov. 1887. I.L.N. liv, 213 (1869), portrait.