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 486 COWPER He ;«., 20 July 1805, at Melbourne House, Whitehall, St. Mar- garet's, Westm., Emily Mary, ist da. of Peniston (Lamb), ist Viscount Melbourne [I.], by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart. He d. at Putney, Surrey, 21, and was bur. 28 July 1837, at Hertingfordbury, aged 59-0 Will pr. Sep. 1837. ^^^ widow, who was b. 21 Apr. 1787, »;., 1 6 Dec. 1 839, C") at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Henry John (Temple), 3rd Viscount Palmerston [I.], the celebrated Prime Minister, who d. s.p., 18 Oct. 1865, aged 8i.('^) She d. at Brocket Hall, Herts, 1 1, and was bur. 17 Sep. 1869, with her 2nd husband, in Westm. Abbey, in her 83rd year. Will pr. 22 Jan. 1870, under ;^ 100,000; resworn June 1870, under ;/^ 120,000. VI. 1837. 6. George Augustus Frederick. (Cowper), Earl CowPER, {s^c, s. and h., b. 26 June 1806, in George Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq. ; sometime an officer in the Royal Horse Guards (Blue); Lieut. 31st Foot, 1835; M.P. (Whig) for Canterbury, 1830-34; Under Sec. of State for Foreign Affairs, Nov. to Dec. 1834; Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rot. for Kent, 1846-56. He m., 7 Oct. 1833, "^^ ^t. James's, Westm., Anne Florence, ist da. of Thomas Philip (de Grey, formerly Robinson), Earl de Grey, by Henrietta Frances, da. of William Willoughby (Cole), 1st Earl of Enniskillen [I.]. He d. at Maidstone (suddenly, of spasms of the heart, while attending the assizes), 15, and was bur. 22 Apr. 1856, at Hertingfordbury, in his 50th year. Will pr. June 1856. His widow, who was b. 8 June 1806, in St. James's Sq., and who, on the death of her father, s.p.m.s., 14 Nov. 1859, became, suo jure. Baroness Lucas of Crudwell, d. 23 July 1880, at 4 St. James's Sq.^^) Will pr. 12 Oct. 1880, under (^) Lord Broughton writes of him in 1825, "Lord Cowper is called a dull man, I know not why; I never saw a man less dull in my life. He has a slow pronuncia- tion and a slow gait and pace." V.G. C") " They are, both of them, above fifty, and I think that they are quite right so to act, because Palmerston, since the death of his sisters, is quite alone in the world, and Lady C. is a very clever woman, and much attached to him; still, I feel sure it will make you smile." (Queen Victoria, letter to Prince Albert, 8 Dec. 1839). " Lady Cowper has courage to face her angry children. I cannot say how much I blame them for telling what they feel, but I wonder she can encounter their antipathy. What a happy mother she might have been and what an unhappy existence will she have, I fear! Her understanding never has been of the slightest use to her." (Harriet, Countess Granville, letter, 7 Dec. 1839). V.G. (') His title became extinct at his death, and he devised his estate of Broadlands, in the parish of Romsey, Hants, to his widow, on whose death it passed to her 2nd son, the Hon. William Francis Cowper-Temple, cr., 25 May 1880, Baron Mount Temple, co. Sligo. He d. s.p., 16 Oct. 1888, in his 77th year, when that title also became extinct. {f) "One of the most delightful girls I ever met with, a fine, open-hearted, un- afiPected creature, very clever and full of talents." (Harriet, Countess Granville, letter, 6 Nov. 1828). " Lady Cowper had hardly brought herself to receive the new element that was influencing and breaking up the Whig party. She was a very agreeable old
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