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COWELL, GEORGE, son of George Cowell, London; b.; adm. Christmas 1811, left 1814; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1815; BA 1820; ordained deacon 24 Dec 1820 (London for Canterbury), priest 1821 (Canterbury); Curate, St. Michael, Crooked Lane, London, 1821. [Presumably George Cowell, son of George Cowell and Isabella ---, bapt. St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 22 Nov 1796 (IGI)]

COWELL, JOHN JERMYN, son of John Welsford Cowell, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, a clerk in Bank of England, and Frances Maberly (IGI); b. 30 Jan 1838; adm. 7 Jun 1850 (Rigaud's); QS 1852; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1856, adm. pens. 5 May 1856, scholar 1857, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Apr 1860, called to bar 30 Apr 1864; Secretary, The Alpine Club; Cowell seems to have developed his fondness for climbing while at school, for he “climbed with another Westminster boy to the top of the Victoria Tower, which was then building, walked out to the end of a beam, projecting over London, and looked down” (Oscar Browning, Memoirs of Sixty Years, 39, 57, 58-61); d. 16 Dec 1867.

Cowell, John Richard, son of Frank Richard Cowell CMG PhD, author, and Lilian Margaret, d. of Rev. Alfred Edward Palin, Rector of Nether Denton, Cumberland; b. 30 Apr. 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (R); left July 1951; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; secretariat Lond. Chamber of Commerce 1957-8, Roy. Horticultural Soc. 1958, dep. sec. 1970, sec. 1975, retd. 1988; m. 8 Apr. 1972 Josephine Suzanne Elizabeth, d. of Ian Craig of Burneston, Yorks; d. 9 Nov. 1998.

Cowell, Ronald George, son of Ebenezer Hudson and Emily Margaret Cowell, of Norwood, b. Sept. 26, 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left Easter 1913; a partner in Hudson Cowell of Bishopsgate, London E. C., grain merchants.

COWELL, SIBERT FORREST ANTROBUS, brother of Wilfrid Hammerton Antrobus Cowell (qv); b. 24 Sep 1863; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; QS Jan 1879; left 1882; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1882; BA 1886; MA 1911; Assistant Secretary, Royal College of Surgeons, 1888-1901, Secretary 1901-34; d. unm. 13 Jan 1949.

COWELL, WILFRID HAMMERTON ANTROBUS, eldest son of Thomas William Cowell MRCS LSA, Piccadilly, London, and Frances Ann, dau. of Edmund Edward Antrobus FSA, Kensington Palace Gardens, London; b. 2 Oct 1856; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (James'); QS 1871; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1875, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; MA 1882; Assistant Master, St. Edward’s School, Summertown, Oxford 1880, Tutor 1893, Second Master from 1925; edited The Roll of St. Edward’s School, 1890, 2nd ed. 1898, 3rd ed. 1907.

COWELLE, ---; b.; adm.; KS; left 1549 (Acts of Chapter).

COWES, JAMES, son of Edmond Cowes, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1646, but was detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Soc. Pub., 2nd ser., xxix, 268), matr. 29 Jan 1646/7, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1649; MA 1651 (incorp. Cambridge 1654); submitted to Parliamentary Visitors 28 May 1648; Chaplain, Christ Church 1650; subscribed the Engagement 1650/1; ordained; Rector of Luddenham, Kent, from 10 Apr 1661; Perpetual Curate, Oare, Kent, from 1668; d. 1674.

Cowie, Anson Gordon, only son of William Clarke Cowie, of Brockley, chairman and managing director of the British North Borneo Company, by Amy Constance, daughter of Charles Durdant Pead, of Margate, Kent; b. July 19, 1890; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1909; served in Great War I; Capt. 20th Batt. London Regt. June 1, 1916; m. May 23, 1916, Kathleen Frances, eldest daughter of Hubert Schmitz, of Niton, Isle of Wight.