3-052-702 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Earl Cowper, K.G., the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1880. Portrait of '...the Right Hon. Sir Francis Thomas De Grey Cowper, Bart., seventh Earl Cowper, also Viscount Fordwich and Baron Cowper, in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baron Butler in the Peerage of England, and Baron Dingwall in the Peerage of Scotland, a Knight of the Order of the Garter...Earl Cowper, who succeeded his father, the sixth Earl, in April, 1856, is forty-six years of age...The abilities of Earl Cowper, though fairly recognised within the inner circle of political and administrative experts, have never yet won him a popular reputation. He seems averse to the display of his talents in general Parliamentary debating, or in speechmaking of any kind; but he has always been diligent, and even assiduous, in the legislative business of the House of Lords'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.