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BOWER, THOMAS BOWYER, elder son of Thomas Bowyer Bower (qv); b. 1 Jul 1803; adm. (G) 17 Oct 1815; left Christmas 1817; Ensign, 61st Foot 28 Aug 1823; Lieut., 4 Feb 1826; Capt., 12 Feb 1826, retd. half-pay; of Iwerne House, Dorset; JP Dorset, High Sheriff 1847; m. 9 Aug 1828 Eliza, only dau. of William Creed, Ballygrennan Castle, co. Limerick; d. 8 Sep 1868.

BOWES, GABRIEL, son of Gabriel Bowes, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorks., and Westminster, attorney, and Judith, dau. of Thomas Chamberlayne, Skipton, ironmonger; bapt. 1 Mar 1715/6; adm. (aged 14) Jun 1730; left 1733; of Elland, Yorks.; m. 25 Jan 1743 Rebecca Kighly (IGI); d. 5 Apr 1764.

Bowes-Scott, Harry George Rodney, only son of Henry Bowes-Scott, of Chelsea, by Alice Henrietta Rodney, eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, Bart., by his second wife; b. May 15, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1903; a civil engineer at Calcutta; 2nd Lieut. Infantry Reserve of Officers, Indian Army, Aug. 7, 1915; attached 29th Punjabis Sept. 4, 1915; killed in action at Soko River, German East Africa, March 21, 1916.

Bowie, Alexander Chichele Plowden Douglas, son of Alexander Bowie, M. D., of Mayfair; by Henrietta Annie Plowden; b. April 23, 1901; adm. April 29, 1915 (H); left Dec. 1917; an industrial chemist and engineer resident in Australia; M.I. Mech.E.; m. Dec. 20, 1930, Margaret, daughter of Thomas O'Tonner, of Canterbury, Kent; d.

BOWKER, ALEXANDER GEORGE, eldest son of Alexander Bowker, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and Charlotte Martha Smith; b. 25 Jan 1866; adm. (H/G) 22 Jan 1880; left Dec 1882; farmed in USA and Canada; m. 18 Dec 1896 Sarah Louisa, second dau. of James Gunn, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

BOWKER, JAMES ASHTON, brother of Alexander George Bowker (qv); b. 16 Feb 1867; adm. (G) 16 Jun 1881; left Dec 1882; student, ICE 17 Jan 1888; engaged in engineering work in Canada and South Africa; d. 21 Jan 1905.

BOWKER, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1732; left 1733.

BOWLE, JOHN, son of Richard Bowle, Chesham, Bucks., auditor to Earl of Bedford, and his first wife Mary Brayton; b.; adm.; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1593, adm. sizar 1593, scholar 1594, matr. Lent 1593/4; BA 1597/8; MA 1601 (incorp. Oxford 9 Jul 1605); BD 1608; DD 1613 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1615); Fellow, Trinity Coll., 1599 -c. 1608; ordained; domestic chaplain to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury; Rector of St, Michael le Querne, London, 1 Mar 1607/8-14; Rector of Upminster, Essex, 1 Jun 1609; Rector of Bradfield, Berks., 1613; Rector of Tilehurst, Berks., 1613; Rector of Eynsford, Kent, 1614-29; Dean of Salisbury 28 Jul 1620 - Feb 1629/30; consecrated Bishop of Rochester 7 Feb 1629/30; Laud, in his account of his archiepiscopate written in 1637, complains that Bowle had been ill for three years before his death, and had neglected his diocese; m. Bridget, dau. of George Coppin, Dunwich, Suffolk, and sister of Sir George Coppin, Kt, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; d. 9 Oct 1637. DNB.

BOWLES, GEORGE DOWNING, second son of Rev. George Downing Bowles, Fawley, Hants., and Anne, eldest dau. of James Stillingfleet (qv) and his second wife; b. 17 Aug 1826; adm. 13 Jan 1840 (Scott's); QS 1841; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1845, matr. 15 May 1845, Westminster Student to 1867; BA 1849; MA 1852; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1850, priest (Peterborough) 1851; Curate, Ravensthorpe, Northants., 1850-1, Farthinghoe, Northants., 1851-4, Thenford, Northants., 1854-62, Farthinghoe, Northants., 1863-6; Rector of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, from 1866; d. 4 Apr 1901.

BOWLING, GEORGE; b.; adm. 10 Nov 1784.