John COWPER [12653]

  General Notes:

John Cowper held the office of Alderman of London. He held the office of Sheriff of London in 1551. He lived at St. Michael's, Cornhill, London, England. L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 86.
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  Research Notes:

JOHN COWPER OP LONDON, ESQ., 1609. Memorand' that John Cowper of London, Esquire, was maried vnto Elizabeth daughter of . . . . . Ironside of Lincolne, Gent., & had issue John Cowper who dyed sans issue, William Cowper second sonne and heire, Edward dyed sans issue, Nicholas, Frances eldest daughter dyed yong; Elizabeth 2d daughter maryed Tho. Carrell of London, gent., and by him had no issue; Secondlie she was maried to John Jaquis of Lond', gent., and had issue John, Nicholas, Richard, Wm, Thomas, Elizabethe, and Catharine Jaquis ; Katharine Cowper 3d daughter maried to John Tey of Essex, gent., and had issue John Tey; and Judith 4 dau'r maried to Richard Bourne of London, gent., and had issue Will'm, Richard, Elizabeth, Judith, Susan, and Annis, which John Cowper the elder aboue named dyed the 3d of June, made his 2d sonne and heire "Will'm Cowper his Executor, and was buried the 13,h June 1609 in S' Michael's Cloisters in Cornehill, Lond', whose Funeralls were Ordered by Richmunde Herald the said William Cowper being cheif Mourner was assisted by Nicholas & Jo. Tey.
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COWPER'S COURT (off south end of Cornhill at No. 32). - Named after the family founded by John Cowper, Sheriff of London, in 1551. The first Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of Queen Anne was a descendant of this sheriff. Harben says more definitely the court is named after Sir Wm. Cooper (or Cowper) a large householder in this parish during James I. The name is spelt Coopers Court in 1799.
In this court stood the famous Jerusalem Coffee House where the Baltic merchants, dealing in tallow, hemp, flax, and corn from the Baltic provinces, met before moving to the Shipping Exchange in Billiter Street, whence they later on removed to the present Baltic Exchange in St. Mary Axe. Jerusalem Chambers commemorate the name.

John married Elizabeth IRONSIDE [12654] [MRIN: 4256].