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Georgiana Caroline Clavering-Cowper, Countess Cowper (born Georgiana Caroline Carteret; 12 March 1715 – 21 August 1780), was an English noblewoman.

Countess Cowper was the third daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, by his first wife, the former Frances Worsley. Her first husband, whom she married on 14 February 1732, was John Spencer MP. They had two children:

• John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (19 December 1734 – 31 October 1783); married Margaret Georgiana Poyntz in 1755, and had issue, including Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
• Diana Spencer (c.1735 – c.1743)

Spencer died in 1746; according to Horace Walpole, his death was alcohol-related. On 1 May 1750, his widow married William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper, whose first wife, Henrietta Nassau d'Auverquerque, had died in 1747, leaving him with two children. There were no children from this second marriage, and William died in 1764, succeeded in the earldom by Georgiana's stepson, George.

She was an admirer of the novelist Laurence Sterne, and a patron of the Irish writer John Pilkington, whose semi-autobiographical work, The Real Story of John Carteret Pilkington, was published in 1760. Pilkington had been given his middle name in honour of the countess's father and named his daughter after the countess in recognition of her service to him. Her portrait was painted by Godfrey Kneller. The painting was copied by Mrs Delany, whose sister Anne was also a correspondent of the countess.

She died in 1780, aged 65.

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John Spencer (13 May 1708 – 19 June 1746) was a British nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1746.

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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 on the death of his maternal uncle. 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 1747 he 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.

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