Spencer Cowper

[1] Cowper served on the Home circuit, and was acquainted with a Quaker family called Stout in Hertford, who had supported his father and brother during elections in the area.

The Stout's daughter Sarah fell in love with him, even though he was already married to Pennington Goodere.

[1] One evening at the Spring assizes in March 1699, Cowper went to Sarah's home to pay her the interest on a mortgage.

To challenge this idea, evidence was given by the famous physicians Samuel Garth and Hans Sloane.

With the accession of George II in 1727, Cowper was made attorney-general to the duchy of Lancaster, and then in 1727 a judge of the common pleas.

[4] Cowper died on 10 December 1728 and was buried at the family seat Hertingfordbury where a monument to him by Louis-François Roubiliac was erected.

[1] Spencer married his second wife Theodora, the widow of John Stepney MP, shortly before his death in 1728.

She married Colonel Martin Madan (MP), Groom of the Chamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and M.P.