Earl Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering-Cowper
(1778-1837)

5th Earl Cowper (from 1799)

Died aged c. 59

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Commemorated on 1 plaque

Newton House Earl Cowper built this fine house c.1820 on part of Squire Pastures Farm, a fore-runner of the high class residential development of New Leeds. In 1843 Hutchinson Gresham, pawnbroker, purchased the villa. Joseph Lumley, mustard, cocoa and chicory manufacturer lived here in 1851.

Spencer Place, LS7, Leeds, United Kingdom where they built