Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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