Career
Harriett Cowper was baptised in Hertingfordbury, Herefordshire on 12 July in 1733. She was one of three daughters of Ashley Cowper. William had a long correspondence with Harriet, even though there was a 19-year gap where at Harriett"s insistence they did not communicate.
This correspondence was the basis for Cowper"s biography.
Hesketh died in Clifton in Bristol in 1807.