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Article: Sir Norman Cowper.
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- Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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Since the 1960s there have been very few prominent Australians descended from the leading settlers of the first half-century of European habitation in New South Wales. Indeed, of the ninety-three pioneer families recognised by L. M. Mowle(1), possibly only five--the Cowpers (arrived 1809), the Streets (1822), the Stephens (1824), the Windeyers (1828) and the Fairfaxes (1838)--produced representatives, prominent in public life, over the succeeding four or five generations.
For over fifty years Norman Lethbridge Cowper, Kt, CBE, BA, LLB, was the scion of the Cowper family. He was born on 15 September 1896(2) at `Wairua' in Wyvern Street, Chatswood, New South Wales ...