On 28th December 1876 [his father] Frank Cowper [aged 27] and [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan [aged 17] were married. They had ten children.
On 16th October 1877 Frank Cadogan Cowper was born to Frank Cowper [aged 28] and Edith Elise Cadogan [aged 18] at Wicken, Northamptonshire.
In 1890 [his father] Frank Cowper [aged 40] and [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan [aged 30] were divorced.
1901. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 23]. "An Aristocrat Answering the Summons to Execution".
1903. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 25]. "Fanny, Sketch of a girl in crinoline dress".
1905. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 27]. "St Agnes in Prison Receiving from Heaven the 'Shining White Garment".
1907. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 29]. "Vanity". The picture borrows motifs from Giulio Romano's portrait of Isabella d'Este at Hampton Court, a picture which had inspired the young Burne-Jones half a century earlier.
1908. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 30]. "Venetian Ladies Listening to "Rapunzel sings from the Tower."
1909. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 31]. "Venetian Ladies Listening to "The Serenade" on the Grand Canal."
1912. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 34]. "The Morning of the Nativity".
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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1913. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 35]. Portrait of William Walter Carlile 1st Baronet [aged 50].
William Walter Carlile 1st Baronet: On 15th June 1862 he was born. In 1885 he and Blanche Anne Cadogan were married. On 3rd January 1950 he died. Baronet Carlile of Gayhurst in BucKinghamshire extinct.
1918. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 40]. "The Bluebird". Painted at 2 Edwardes Square Studios, a southerly outpost of the artists' colony in Holland Park that had sprung up in the later nineteenth-century under the leadership of the President of the Royal Academy, Sir Frederic Leighton.
1919. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 41]. "Our Lady of The Fruits of The Earth."
1919. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 41]. "Vanity II."
1920. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 42]. Portrait of Violet Miriam Nightingale Clay Baroness Vernon [aged 25].
1926. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 48]. "La Belle Dame sans Merci."
1928. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 50]. "Titania Sleeps."
On 28th May 1930 [his father] Frank Cowper [aged 81] died.
On 18th November 1933 [his mother] Edith Elise Cadogan [aged 74] died.
1946. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 68]. "Joan Saxton, a Student Nurse Who Trained at Cirencester Memorial Hospital".
Before 1958. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 80]. "The Ugly Duckling."
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Before 1958. Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 80]. "The Golden Bowl."
On 17th November 1958 Frank Cadogan Cowper [aged 81] died.