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cowper

n. (context obsolete English) A cooper.

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Cowper

Cowper may refer to:

  • Cowper (surname), people with the surname
  • Cowper Phipps Coles (1819-1870), English naval captain and inventor
  • Earl Cowper, an extinct title in the Peerage of Great Britain
  • Cowper, New South Wales, a town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Division of Cowper, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
  • Cowper County, New South Wales
  • Cowper House, Chester, England
  • Cowper stove, a regenerative heat exchanger
  • Cooper (profession), cowper is old English spelling of Cooper ( A maker or repairer of casks and barrels)
Cowper (surname)

Cowper (pronounced Cowper or Cooper depending on family) is a surname of several persons:

  • Austen Cowper (1885–1960), cricketer
  • Bob Cowper (born 1940), Australian cricketer
  • Charles Cowper (1807–1875), Australian politician
  • Douglas Cowper (1817-1839), British painter
  • Edward Alfred Cowper (1819–1893), British mechanical engineer and metallurgist
  • Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
  • Frank Cowper (1849–1930), British yachtsman and author; father of artist Frank Cadogan Cowper
  • 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 Cowper (1902–1962), English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s
  • Richard Cowper, pseudonym of John Middleton Murry, Jr.
  • Spencer Cowper (1670–1728), British MP and barrister
  • Spencer Cowper (priest) 1713–1774, Dean of Durham Cathedral
  • Steve Camberling Cowper (born 1938), American politician and governor of Alaska
  • William Cowper of Galloway (1568–1619), bishop
  • William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet and hymnodist
  • William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723), Lord Chancellor of England
  • William Cowper (anatomist), English anatomist (1666–1709), see also Cowper's gland and Cowper's fluid
  • William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811–1888), British politician and courtier

Usage examples of "cowper".

A marriage certificate, drawn up in officialese by Howard Goldstein, a Teller law student, was prepared for the Baxters and signed by Cowper, the couple themselves, and Rod and Caroline as witnesses.

Prints of great-uncles, famed for their prowess in the East, hung above Chinese teapots, whose sides were riveted by little gold stitches, and the precious teapots, again, stood upon bookcases containing the complete works of William Cowper and Sir Walter Scott.

Lady Cowper looking hagged and frightened: I don’t wonder at it, and shall shed no tears!

They were next conveyed by water from the Tower to Westminster Hall, and being brought into the court, presided over by Lord Chancellor Cowper, as Lord High Steward, received sentence of death.

At all events with Cowper lurking somewhere on the far side of the yews, any further attempt by Johnny to get down into the vault was quite out of the question.