Question: What nationality is William Clavering-Cowper, 2Nd Earl Cowper's father?

Knowledge 1: William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier.Born William Cowper, he was the eldest son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, by Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell, County Durham.He later assumed the additional surname of Clavering.He succeeded his father in the earldom in October 1723, aged 14.In 1744 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, a post he held until his death.He was also a Lord of the Bedchamber to George II.Lord Cowper was twice married.He married firstly Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, in 1732.After her death in September 1747he married secondly Lady Georgiana Caroline, daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, and widow of John Spencer, in 1750.He died in September 1764, aged 55, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper.The Countess Cowper died in August 1780. [SEP] Knowledge 2: William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, (– 10 October 1723) was an English politician who became the first Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.Cowper was the son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet, of Ratling Court, Kent, a Whig member of parliament of some mark in the two last Stuart reigns.
Knowledge 1: William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier.Born William Cowper, he was the eldest son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, by Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell, County Durham.He later assumed the additional surname of Clavering.He succeeded his father in the earldom in October 1723, aged 14.In 1744 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, a post he held until his death.He was also a Lord of the Bedchamber to George II.Lord Cowper was twice married.He married firstly Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, in 1732.After her death in September 1747he married secondly Lady Georgiana Caroline, daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, and widow of John Spencer, in 1750.He died in September 1764, aged 55, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper.The Countess Cowper died in August 1780. [SEP] Knowledge 2: Mary Cowper
Mary, Countess Cowper (née Clavering) (1685 – February 5, 1724) was an English courtier and diarist, and the wife of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper.
Knowledge 1: William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper (13 August 1709 – 18 September 1764), styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier.Born William Cowper, he was the eldest son of William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, by Mary, daughter of John Clavering, of Chopwell, County Durham.He later assumed the additional surname of Clavering.He succeeded his father in the earldom in October 1723, aged 14.In 1744 he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, a post he held until his death.He was also a Lord of the Bedchamber to George II.Lord Cowper was twice married.He married firstly Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham, in 1732.After her death in September 1747he married secondly Lady Georgiana Caroline, daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, and widow of John Spencer, in 1750.He died in September 1764, aged 55, and was succeeded in the earldom by his son from his first marriage, George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper.The Countess Cowper died in August 1780. [SEP] Knowledge 2: Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury
Emily Caroline Catherine Frances Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury (6 November 1810 – 15 October 1872), formerly Lady Emily Cowper, was the wife of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and the mother of the 8th earl.The daughter of Peter Clavering-Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper, and his wife Emily, Lady Emily was familiarly known as "Minny".It was widely believed that her natural father was Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, whom her mother married in 1839, following Earl Cowper's death.Emily was the second child of the Cowpers, after her brother, George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper .Her younger brothers were William Cowper-Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple, and The Honorable Charles Cowper.Emily's younger sister, Francess, became a viscountess.She married Shaftesbury, then known as Lord Ashley and the heir of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, on 10 June 1830.They had ten children:
In 1851, Ashley-Cooper succeeded to the earldom of Shaftesbury, at which point his wife became countess.Several of the couple's children suffered ill-health, and the news that Lady Constance's life depended on her going abroad for the winter, as well as the illness of her youngest son, Cecil, caused the countess to fall ill also.The countess died at the couple's town house in Grosvenor Square, London, aged 61.Her husband described her as "my earthly mainstay", and as a "wonderful combination of truth, simplicity, joyousness of heart and purity of spirit".Lady Constance died two months later in London.

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