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394 COWLEY — COWPER. COUNT DANGAN, co. Meath and KARL COWLEY ;(») K.G., a Feb 1866 : Hun. D.C.L., Oxford 22 June 1870. On the death of his ■paternal cousin, William Richard Arthur (Wellesi.ky), 5th Haul of Mounini:tpn [l.J he inherited, under his will, the estate of Draycott, Wilts, which for maasgt centuries hail been the property OI tuu family of Long (B;ironets 1662-1805), but which had come to Lord Morniugton thro' his mother (Miss Tylney-Long) the heiress of that family. He m. 23 Oct. 1833 the lion. Olivia Cecilia Fitzgerald de Ros, da. of Charlotte, sua jure Baroness de Ros and Loixl Henry Fitz Gerald. He d, at 20, Albemarle Street, Midx., 15 July 1884, iu hi? 80th year and was bur. at Draycott, Wilts. Will pr. 5 March 18So at £40,i«97 ; re-sworn, Feb. 1886, at £38,640. His widow, who was b. 11 Jan. 1807, d. in Albemarle Street afsd., 21 April 1885, aged 78 and was bur. at Draycott. Will pr. 25 June 1885 at II. Barony III. 2, and 3. William Henby (Wei.lesley), Earl Cowlky, Viscount Oanoan and Baron Cow: by, s. aud h., 4. 1884 ^ •^• U S- 1834, at Stuttgardt, in Germany ; ed. at Eton, 1850 ; Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 1852 ; Capt., 1854 ; receiving the Crimean medal, 1855, and the 5th class of Turkish order of the Medjidie, 1S58 ; served in the Oude campaign, 1858 ; Military Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, 1859 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col. Coldstream Guards, 1860-63 ; Capt. Wilts Yeomanry, 1873-74 He m. 8 Aug. 1863 at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Kmily Gwendolen, 2nd da. of Thomas Peers Williams, of Temple House, Great Marlow, Berks., and of Oraig-y-don, co. Anglesey, by Emily, da. of Anthony Bacon of Elcott, Berks. [Henry Arthur Mornington Wei.lesley, styled Viscount Daxuan, s. and h. ap., b. in AVilton Place, Midx., 14 Jan. 1866 j ed. at Eton ; Capt. 3rd Keg. Wilts. Militia, 1886.} Family estates.— These, in 1883, consisted of 3,945 acres in Wilts, worth about £2 an acre per annum ; 1,433 acres in Essex, worth XI 1,542, and 522 in Cornwall, worth above £1,000, a year. Total 5,900 acres, worth £23,172 a year. Principal Residence— Draycott Park, near Chippenham, Wilts. COWPER and COWPER OF WINGHAM. 1. Sir William Cowper, Bart., Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, was on 14 Dec. 1706, nr. BARON COWPER OF WING- HAM, co. Kent, aud, being then Lord High Chancellor, was, IS March 1717/8, cr. VISCOUNT FORDWiOH, co. Kent, and EARL COWPER,( a ) with a spec. rem. of those dignities and with a further extension of the remainder of the Barony of Cowper of Wing- ham, failing heirs male of the body of the grantee, to his br. Sir Spencer CowperC) and the heirs male of lu's body. He was a. and for the Treaty of Paris, in 18-36 ; (2) the peace with Persia, also signed at Paris, 1857 ; (3) the plot of Orsini against the Emperor's life, 14 Jan. 1858, which having been " hatched in England " exasperated the jjublic feeling of France against us ; (4) the war between France and Austria, 1859, followed by tho " cession of Savoy and Nice to France, which caused so much irritation in England ;" (5) The treaty of Commerce between France and England, signed 23 Jan. I860, in which Lord Cowley was Joint Plenipo. with Mr. Cobden ; (6) the Emperor's proposals for a European Congress in 1863 rendered abortive mainly by the refusal of Earl Russell as Foreign Secretary to accede to them ;" (7) the Danish war of 1864 ; (8) The Mexican Expedition and " its disastrous sequel in the execution of the Emperor Maximilian ;" (9) the negotia- tions concerning Luxembourg; and (20) "last, but not least, the Austro-ltussiun war of 1866." "As a final incident in Lord Cowley's diplomatic career the authentic news of Maximilian's tragic death reached Europe on the very day that Lord Cowley took leave of his diplomatic colleagues in Paris. -See obituary notice in '• the Times " newspaper, 16 July 1884. (») See, ante, p. 102, note "a." (b) His issue male became extinct in his grandchildren ; one (but not the survivor) of these was the Poet, William Cowper, b. 26 April 1731, d. 25 April loUU. Barony. I. 1706. Earldom. t 1718.