Cowper

Cowper may refer to:

  • Cowper (surname), people with the surname
  • Cowper Phipps Coles (1819-1870), English naval captain and inventor
  • Earl Cowper, an extinct title in the Peerage of Great Britain
  • Cowper, New South Wales, a town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Division of Cowper, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
  • Cowper County, New South Wales
  • Cowper House, Chester, England
  • Cowper stove, a regenerative heat exchanger

Famous quotes containing the word cowper:

    “O, popular applause! what heart of man
    Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Variety’s the very spice of life
    That gives it all its flavour.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Toll for the brave—
    The brave! that are no more:
    All sunk beneath the wave,
    Fast by their native shore.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)