One admirer of Salisbury, Maurice Cowling largely agrees with the critics and says Salisbury found the democracy born of the 1867 and 1884 Reform Acts as " perhaps less objectionable than he had expected — succeeding, through his public persona, in mitigating some part of its nastiness.

Maurice Cowling and Roger Scruton were both influential fellows of the College and are sometimes described as key figures in the so-called " Peterhouse right " – an intellectual movement linked to Margaret Thatcher.

** Maurice Cowling, British historian ( d. 2005 )

* Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Hitler-British Policies and Policy 1933-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p. 402, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

His election, which surprised his contemporaries, was engineered by a group of fellows led by Maurice Cowling, then the leading Peterhouse Historian.

He was educated at Stanburn Primary School in Stanmore, Middlesex, and Harrow County School for Boys and then won a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he came under the influence of Maurice Cowling.

) The Conservative historian Maurice Cowling wrote in 1975: " To history, until yesterday, Halifax was the arch-appeaser.

* Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler: British Politics and British Policy, 1933-1940 ( Cambridge University Press, 1975 ).

* Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Hitler-British Policies and Policy 1933-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p. 415, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

One admirer of Salisbury, Maurice Cowling largely agrees with the critics and says Salisbury found the democracy born of the 1867 and 1884 Reform Acts as " perhaps less objectionable than he had expected — succeeding, through his public persona, in mitigating some part of its nastiness.

The Conservative historian Maurice Cowling claimed that " The giant of conservative doctrine is Salisbury ".

* Maurice Cowling, ‘ The Present Position ’, in Cowling ( ed.

Although the Coalition Liberals who had formerly held the seat were pushed into third place, Simon came second ; in the view of Maurice Cowling his defeat by Labour marked the point at which Labour began to be seen as a serious threat by the older parties.

In 1952 he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge and read history, being influenced by Conservative-minded figures such as Maurice Cowling, Herbert Butterfield and Michael Oakeshott.

* Cowling, Maurice ( 1994 ) " Alasdair MacIntyre, Religion & the University ," The New Criterion 12: 6.

* Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Labour 1920-1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics Cambridge 1971

* Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler.

In 1982 Scruton became founding editor of The Salisbury Review — a journal championing traditional conservatism, in opposition to Thatcherism — set up by a group of Tories known as the Salisbury Group, with the involvement of the Peterhouse Right, a circle of conservatives associated with the Cambridge college, including Maurice Cowling, David Watkin, and the mathematician Adrian Mathias.

Maurice John Cowling ( 6 September 1926 – 24 August 2005 ) was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Maurice Cowling ’ s “ New Right ”, Encounter ( March 1990 ), p. 72.

), Public and Private Doctrine: Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling ( Cambridge University Press, 1993 ).

* Jonathan Parry, ‘ Cowling, Maurice John ( 1926 – 2005 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, May 2009.

), Philosophy, Politics and Religion in British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatism ( I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010 ).

He noted that finding subscribers was initially difficult, and that Maurice Cowling had told him that to " try to encapsulate in a philosophy was the kind of quaint project that Americans might undertake ".

* Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Labour.

* Maurice Cowling ( 1975 ) The Impact of Hitler – British Politics and Policy 1933 – 1940, Cambridge University Press, p. 403, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler-British Politics & Policy 1933 – 1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p. 403, ISBN 0-521-20582-4

# Donald Cowling, 1909 – 1945

* Richard Cowling Taylor ( 1789 – 1851 ), English surveyor and geologist

Thomas George Cowling FRS ( 17 June 1906 – 16 June 1990 ) was an English astronomer.

Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham ( of Kent ) ( c. 1260 – 25 August 1339 ) was the son of John de Cobham of Cobham, Kent, and of Cowling or Cooling, Kent ( died bef.

* Cowling, Elizabeth ; Mundy, Jennifer, On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910 – 1930, London: Tate Gallery.

* Cowling, M., " Obituary George and Esther Szekeres ," Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, Vol 32 ( 2005 ), No 4, pp. 221 – 224.

As independence for India neared in 1947, Cowling was dispatched to Egypt as a camp adjutant to the British HQ there.

In 1954 Cowling worked at the British Foreign Office for six months at the Jordan department, and in early 1955, The Times gave him the job of foreign leader-writer, which he held for three years.

In 1992 Philip Williamson published his book on British politics from 1926 to 1932 and said Cowling " provided the original inspiration " for it.

Cowling wrote three books on British high politics, the sequence he called The Politics of British Democracy.

Cowling was well known for his Primat der Innenpolitik (" primacy of domestic politics ") explanations for British foreign policy ; for example, he argued that the British “ guarantee ” of Poland issued on March 31, 1939 was advanced to improve the Conservatives ’ chances against Labour, and had nothing to do with foreign policy considerations.

In 1933 Cowling wrote an article, The magnetic field of sunspots.

When the Second World War started in 1939 the school moved to Worthing and then from 1940 to Hertford where Cowling attended sixth-form.

Cowling claimed that " In the future there will be an introduction bearing the sequence-title which will deal in its widest aspects with the period from 1850 to 1940 and will assess the methods used in the volumes which have now been published ".