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Bowack, John; writing master, resident in Chelsea, by Dec 1702 ; living in Church Lane, Chelsea in 1705 ; Writing Master at the School by 1712 -c.1730 ; Clerk and Secretary to Trustees for repairing the Roads in the Parishes of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham from Jul 1732 (still May 1756) ; Assistant Secretary to Westminster Bridge Commissioners Jul 1736 (still 1749) ; author, The Antiquities of Middlesex, 1705-6 ; living 1756. ODNB.

BOWATER, EDWARD, third son of Edward Bowater, Woolwich, Kent, and Charlotte, dau. of Charles Bale MD FRS, Physician to the Charterhouse; b. 1 Jan 1759; adm. 9 Jan 1769; left 1773; 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery, 21 Feb 1777; Lieut., 11 Nov 1779; Capt. -Lieut., 16 Mar 1791; Capt., 22 Sep 1794; Brevet Maj., 1 Jan 1798; Maj., 12 Sep 1803; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 25 Sep 1803; Lieut. -Col., 1 Nov 1803; Invalid Battn., 17 Jun 1807; m. 1st, 6 Oct 1782 Catherine, dau. of Thomas Branton, New York, USA; m. 2nd, 1 Jan 1791 Maria, dau. of John Benson, New York, USA; d. 28 Apr 1809.

BOWDLER, SAMUEL, fourth son of William Bowdler, Hereford, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1670; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1673, matr. 31 May 1673, but not adm. as Westminster Student; d. 1678.

BOWEN, ---; in school list 1731.

Bowen, Geoffrey Adcock, brother of Sir John Poland Bowen (q.v.); b. Sept. 29, 1889, adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1905; d. at Alexandria, Egypt, Sept. 29, 1912.

BOWEN, GEORGE, only son of Adm. George Bowen RN, and Mary --- (IGI); b. 25 Dec 1800; adm. 13 Jan 1815 (Packharness'); left 7 Apr 1819; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 May 1819; BA 1823; MA 1827; adm. Inner Temple 1821; of Coton, Shropshire (living there when signatory to Play Protest, 1847); d. 16 May 1861.

BOWEN, GEORGE; b.; adm. 7 May 1772; left Whitsun 1775.

Bowen, Ivor Ian, son of Ivor Bowen KC, County Court Judge, and Edith May, d. of Robert Dummett of Highgate; b. 3 Dec. 1908; adm. Sept. 1922 (A); left 1927; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1927, Gladstone Memorial Prize 1929, Eldon Law Schol. 1930, BA (1st class hons Modern History), MA 1935; Fellow of All Souls' Coll. 1930-7, 1968; lecturer in Economics BNC 1931-40; Chief Statistical Officer, Min. of Works 1940-5; lecturer Hertford Coll. Oxf. 1946; Prof. of Econom­ics and Commerce Univ. Coll. Hull 1947-58; Prof. of Economics Univ. of W. Australia 1958- 73, Emeritus 1974; author of Cobden (Great Lives Series) 1934, Britain's Industrial Survival 1947, Acceptable Inequalities 1970, Economics and Demography 1976; editor Finance and Development (World Bank and IMF) 1974-7; m. 1st 1 June 1935 Erica Baillie; 2nd 17 Sept. 1952 Isobel Margaret, d. of James Lindsay Salmond Smith of Edinburgh; d. in Andorra 20 Nov. 1984.

Bowen, John Anthony Poland, son of Sir John Poland Bowen (qv); b. 25 July 1921; adm. May 1935 (A); left July 1938; Westminster Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1944; RNVR 1944-5 (Surg. Lieut.); in gen. med. practice at Worcester Park, Surrey; m. 29 July 1944 Mary Elizabeth, d. of Capt. Thomas Horrabin Coop of New Malden, Surrey; d. 2006

Bowen, Sir John Poland, son of John Bowen, A. M. l. C. E., of Reading, Berks, Borough Engineer, by Laura Belle, daughter of Frederick Poland Adcock, solicitor, of Cambridge; b. Sept. 15, 1886; adm. Sept. 27, 1900 (A); left Dec. 1903; London Univ.; B.Sc. (Engineering) 1908; M.I.C.E.; served in Great War I 1914-8; Capt. No. 4 Electric Light Co. Kent Fortress Engineers R.E. (T. F.) June 1, 1916; Engineer-in-Chief at Trinity House Oct. 1924; retired 1951; C.B.E. 1945; knighted Feb. 24, 1952; m. Jan. 1, 1912, Constance Goodrich, daughter of Henry Goodrich Willett, Secretary, Trinity House; d. March 4, 1955.