COWPER, Henry (Grimwade p.476)

[MCB]

As Henry Cowper Esquire he was entered in the 1788 London Poll Book living at Old Palace Yard, Whitehall.
In his son John’s application for freedom by redemption in the Wheelwrights Company in 1795 his father was, as Heal noted in 1789, still recorded as a merchant from Gibraltar.

[silverly]

10 September 1803 Henry Cowper Esquire Senior died at Gibraltar. (He was the oldest British Inhabitant there.) Reference: The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle for 1803 By Sylvanus Urban, Gentleman.