Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
1834–1905
Politician and landowner. BA, Oxford, 1855. Succeeded his father as seventh Earl Cowper in 1856. Lord lieutenant of Bedfordshire, 1861. A Whig and a supporter of Gladstone. House of Lords spokesman on Board of Trade matters, 1871–3. Lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1880–2.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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