Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase
1869. _Art Journal ix_, 107 (1870).
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BOWLES, SIR GEORGE (_2 son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts._)
_b._ Heale house 1787; Ensign Coldstream Guards 20 Dec. 1804,
major 31 Dec. 1839 to 30 May 1843 when placed on h.p.; served in
the Peninsula 1808–14, in Flanders and France 1814–18, in the West
Indies 1820–25, and in Canada 1837–43; commanded the troops in
Lower Canada during rebellion of 1838; comptroller of household of
Viceroy of Ireland 1843–5; master of the Queen’s household 4 April
1845 to July 1851; lieutenant of Tower of London 16 July 1851 to
death; K.C.B. 22 July 1851, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. of 1 West
India regiment 9 Sep. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. _d._ 9
Berkeley St. Piccadilly London 24 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 551
(1876), _lxix_, 255.
BOWLES, REV. HENRY MATTHEW JOHN. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1846, M.A. 1851, M.A. Ox. 1856; C. of St. John Cheltenham 1851–54;
R. of Framilode Gloucs. 21 Sep. 1854 to 1867; R. of St. Aldate’s
Gloucester 15 April 1867 to death; author of _Prayers for the
dead_ 1873; _Fasting communion_ 1873; _Lawlessness_ 1874. _d._
Cathedral house, College gardens, Gloucester 6 Jany. 1884.
BOWLES, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836,
LLD. 1837, D.D. 1841; R. of Woodstock 1841–7; V. of Stanton-Lacey,
Shropshire 1847 to death; author of _Elegy on the death of the
Princess Charlotte_; _Monody on the death of Sir John
Throckmorton_; _Letters in vindication of the appointment of the
Bishop of Hereford_. _d._ 1879.
BOWLES, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house,
Wilts._) _b._ Heale house 1780; entered navy 9 Sep. 1796, captain
13 Oct. 1807; commander in chief on South American station
1816–20; comptroller general of the Coastguard July 1822 to Nov.
1841; a lord of the Admiralty 13 May 1844 to 13 July 1846; M.P.
for Launceston 20 May 1844 to 1 July 1852; admiral 28 Nov. 1857;
commander in chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1859 to 1 March 1860;
admiral of the fleet 15 Jany. 1869 to death; C.B. 18 April 1839,
K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, F.R.G.S. 1833; author of _Thoughts on
national defence_; _Considerations on the late naval war_ 1856.
_d._ 8 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1869. _Journal of Royal
Geog. Soc. xl, pp. cxl-cxlii_, (1870).
BOWLEY, ROBERT KANZOW (_son of Mr. Bowley of Charing Cross, London,
bootmaker_). _b._ 13 May 1813; brought up to the bootmaking
business; conductor of Benevolent society of musical amateurs;
organist of an independent chapel near Leicester sq. about 1834;
joined the Sacred harmonic society 1834, librarian 1837–54,
treasurer 1854–70: originated in 1856 plan of the gigantic Handel
festivals which have been held every three years at Crystal Palace
since 1857; general manager of Crystal Palace 8 April 1858 to
death; committed suicide by jumping into the Thames from a
steamboat at Greenwich 25 Aug. 1870.
BOWLY, SAMUEL (_son of Mr. Bowly of Bibury, Gloucs., miller_). _b._
Cirencester 23 March 1802; a cheese factor at Gloucester 1829;
chairman of many local companies; took a prominent part in
agitation against the corn laws and against slavery; a founder of
British and ragged schools in Gloucester; formed a teetotal
society at Gloucester 30 Dec. 1835; pres. of National temperance
league. _d._ Gloucester 23 March 1884. _Sessions’s Life of S.
Bowly_ 1884, _portrait_; _The Public Good, Sep. and Oct. 1851,
portrait_.
BOWMAN, EDDOWES (_eld. son of John Eddowes Bowman of Wrexham, bank
manager 1785–1841_). _b._ Nantwich 12 Nov. 1810; ed. at Hazelwood
near Birmingham; sub-manager of Varteg iron works near Pontypool
about 1835–40; studied in Univ. of Glasgow and at Berlin;
professor of classical literature and history in Manchester New
College 1846 to 1853 when college was removed to London as a
purely theological institution; F.R.A.S. 1864; built an
observatory at Manchester; author of _Arguments against the divine
authority of the Sabbath considered and shown to be inconclusive_
1842; _On the Roman governors of Syria at the time of the birth of
Christ_ 1855 and of many papers in the _Christian Reformer_. _d._
Victoria park, Manchester 10 July 1869. _Unitarian Herald 16 July
1869_; _Hall’s History of Nantwich_ (1883) 505.
BOWMAN, HENRIETTA (_dau. of Rev. John Bowman, P.C. of Burscough near
Ormskirk Lancs._) _b._ Cumberland 1838; taught Bible classes for
young ladies at Clifton and Southport; author of _Life, its duty
and discipline_ 1859; _Christian daily life_ 1860, _new ed._ 1877;
_Our village girls_ 1863; _Thoughts for workers and sufferers_
1868; _The autobiography of Elsie Ellis_ 1869, in which she
describes her own childhood and girlhood; _Lily Hope and her
friends_ 1885. _d._ Southport 13 Feb. 1872. _Songs amid the
shadows by the late Hetty Bowman 2 ed._ 1872; _Woman’s Work in the
great harvest field i_, 137–40 (1872).
BOWMAN, JOHN EDDOWES (_brother of Eddowes Bowman 1810–69_). _b._
Welchpool 7 July 1819; ed. at King’s college London; demonstrator
of chemistry at the college 1845 and professor of practical
chemistry there 1851 to death; one of founders of Chemical society
of London 1841; author of _A lecture on steam boiler explosions_
1845; _An introduction to practical Chemistry_ 1848, _6 ed._ 1871;
_A practical Handbook of medical chemistry_ 1850, _4 ed._ 1862.
_d._ 10 Feb. 1854. _Chem. Soc. Journ. ix_, 159 (1857).
BOWNESS, WILLIAM. _b._ Kendal 1809; _portrait_ and figure painter in
London 1830; exhibited his ‘Keepsake’ at Royal Academy 1836 and
about one picture annually until his death; exhibited 26 pictures
at British Institution and 86 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery;
author of _Rustic studies in the Westmoreland dialect with other
scraps from the sketch-book of an artist_ 1868. _d._ Charlotte st.
Fitzroy sq. London 27 Dec. 1867.
BOWRING, ALGERNON CHARLES. _b._ Hackney, London 19 March 1828; ed.
at London Univ. and Trin. coll. Cam.; joined Church of Rome 1850;
entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 24 March 1850; professor of
rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1854; studied theology at St.
Beuno’s college and then in the Roman college at Rome 1855 to
death. _d._ the Roman College 18 Nov. 1857.
BOWRING, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Charles Bowring of Larkbear Devon,
serge manufacturer_). _b._ Exeter 17 Oct. 1792; set up in business
in London 1815; travelled abroad 1819–20; joint editor of
_Westminster Review_ 1824 and then sole editor; examined and
reported on public accounts of Holland 1828 and France 1831; LLD.
Univ. of Groningen 31 Jany. 1829; sec. to Commission for
inspecting accounts of United Kingdom 1831; contested Blackburn
1832, M.P. for Kilmarnock 1835–37 and for Bolton 1841–49; British
consul at Canton 10 Jany. 1849; plenipotentiary to China 24 Dec.
1853 to 17 April 1857; governor of Hong Kong 10 Jany. 1854; sent
on special mission to Siam 12 March 1855; retired on a
superannuation allowance 17 July 1859; knighted at Buckingham
Palace 16 Feb. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; one of greatest linguists
on record; author of _Specimens of the Russian poets translated_
1820; _Minor morals for young people illustrated in tales and
travels 2 vols._ 1834–35; _The kingdom and people of Siam 2 vols._
1857; _The Oak, original tales and sketches_ 1869 and many other
books. _d._ Claremont near Exeter 23 Nov. 1872. _Bowring, Cobden
and China a memoir by L. Moor_ 1857; _Autobiographical
recollections of Sir J. Bowring with a brief memoir by L. B.
Bowring_ 1877; _Sir J. Bowring’s The kingdom and people of Siam
ii_, 248–340 (1857), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review i_, 161–65,
_portrait_; _Dict. of Nat. Biog. vi_, 76–80 (1886).
BOWSTEAD, REV. JOHN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A.
1835; V. of Messingham, Lincs. 1840–62; R. of St. Olave’s
Southwark, London 1862 to death; author of _The village wake_
1846; _Practical sermons 2 vols._ 1856; _Regeneration not
salvation, a letter to Mr. Spurgeon_ 1864. _d._ 29 Jany. 1875 aged
64.
BOWYER, CORNELIUS. Entered Bengal army 1799, lieut. col. 9 July
1825, retired 20 May 1829; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. _d._ Ostend 12 Feb.
1855.
BOWYER, SIR GEORGE, 6 and 2 Baronet. _b._ Radley house near
Abingdon, Berkshire March 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804,
M.A. 1807; succeeded his father 6 Dec. 1799; M.P. for Malmesbury 8
May 1807 to Jany. 1810, for Abingdon 24 June 1811 to 10 June 1818;
author of _The resolution of the House of Commons in the last
session of the late Parliament relative to the adjustment of the
claims of the Roman Catholics considered_ 1813. _d._ Dresden 1
July 1860.
BOWYER, SIR GEORGE, 7 and 3 Baronet (_eld. son of the preceding_).
_b._ Radley house 8 Oct. 1811; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839, reader
1850; hon. M.A. Ox. 1839, hon. D.C.L. 1844; contested Reading
1849; M.P. for Dundalk 1852–68, and for co. Wexford 1874–80;
expelled from Reform Club by a vote of two-thirds at a general
meeting 23 June 1876 for his frequent voting against Liberal
party; joined Church of Rome 1850; chamberlain to Pope Pius ix;
built church of St. John of Jerusalem Great Ormond st. Bloomsbury,
London; a knight of Malta; knight grand cross of order of St.
Gregory the Great; author of _A dissertation on the statutes of
the cities of Italy_ 1838; _Commentaries on the modern civil law_
1848; _Lombardy, the Pope and Austria_ 1848; _Commentaries on
universal public law_ 1854; _Friends of Ireland in council—Sir
George Bowyer, W. H. Wilberforce, J. P. Hennessey_ 1864;
_Introduction to the study and use of the civil law_ 1874; found
dead in his bed at 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 7 June
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