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

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    “Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

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    The closest knot that may be tied,
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    At one immense explosion.”
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