COWLEY, HENRY WELLESLEY, 1ST EARL (1804 1884), British diplomatist, eldest son of the 1st Baron Cowley and nephew of the duke of Wellington, was born on June 17, 1804. After holding various diplomatic posts he succeeded the 1st mar quess of Normandy as ambassador in Paris in 1852. This post he held for 15 years. He conducted the negotiations on the East ern question which preceded and followed the Crimean War, and assisted Cobden in the negotiation of the commercial treaty of 186o between France and England. He received an earldom in 1857, and died on July 15, 1884.