530 Henry Cowper

Constituency : Hertfordshire  1865-85

Henry  restored  the  Liberals  to  one  of  the  three  Hertfordshire  seats  after  a  by-election  defeat  in  1864.

Henry  was  a  younger  son  of  Earl  Cowper. He  was  a notable  wit. He  was  described  by  Wilfrid   Blunt  as  representing  "the  Whig  tradition  in  its  most  attractive  form , that  of  the  cultured  politician  of a  hundred  years  ago, partly  humane, partly  sceptical, full  of  dignity  and  profoundly  immoral".

He  died  in  1887  aged  51.