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Bowen, Peter, brother of Rowland Bowen (qv); b. 2 Oct. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (H); left Apr. 1935; d. July 1939.

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.

Bowen, Rowland, son of Charles Bowen of Hampstead, and Nina May, d. of William Rains Johnston of Finchley; b. 27 Feb. 1916; adm. Apr. 1929 (H); left Dec. 1933; Indian Police, NW Province and Frontier Constabulary, 1936-40; FRGS 1940; Indian Engineers 1940-5 (Capt.); with merchants in Java 1948-9; RE air survey in India 1951-8, Maj. RE 1955; Joint Intell.; d. 4 Sept. 1978

Bowman, Paget John Merrimam, only son of George Cyril Bowman, of Haslemere, Surrey, by Frederica Caroline, daughter of John Jones Merriman, M. D., of Kensington; b. Aug. 29, 1874; adm. Jan. 14, 1886 (H); left March 1892; adm. a solicitor March 1899; practised in London; Clerk to the Vintry Ward; an amateur actor and musician of distinction; advisory business director of the National Opera Co.; m. May 3, 1905, Sibyl Mary, younger daughter of Capt. Norcliffe Gilpin, of Chelsea; d. as the result of a motor accident Feb. 23, 1928.

Bowyer-Bower, Aubrey Outram, son of Thomas Bowyer-Bower, of Ealing; b. March 28, 1890; adm. May 4, 1905 (H); left Easter 1907; served with the Canadian Forces in Great War I.

Bradshaw, Gerald Arthur, brother of Watson Bradshaw (q.v.); b. Oct. 24, 1880; adm. April 28, 1892 (H); left July 1896; St. Mary's Hospital 1897; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1905; sometime a surgeon in R. N.; practised in London as an ophthalmic surgeon; m. 1922, Anne, daughter of James Hill Harding, of Cardiff; d. Sept. 14, 1955.

Bradford, John Spencer Purvis, son of Arthur Montagu Blackie Bradford of Ealing, and Violet Mary, d. of Rev. John Louis Spencer, Rector of Ashley, Staffs; b. 23 Aug. 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left July 1936; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1936, BA 1941, MA 1943; Intell. Corps 1943-5 (Lieut.); Demonstrator in Ethnology, Oxford Univ., 1947; FSA 1948; author of Ancient Land­scapes 1957; m. 11 Dec. 1948 Patience Felicity, d. of Hugh Andrewes of Bude, Cornwall; d. 12 Aug. 1975.

Boys, Anthony Vernon, son of Ernest John Egerton Boys, civil engineer, and Janet Myfanwy, sis­ter of Percy Thoresby-Jones (qv); b. 19 June 1922; adm. Apr. 1936 (H); left Apr. 1937; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army 1942, transf. to RE 1945 (Lieut.); m. Dorothea Maud, d. of Rev. George Owen Cheese, Vicar of Wastlake, Cumbria; d. in Kenya 12 Jan. 1959.

Bradshaw, Watson, son of Watson Bradshaw, M. D., of Kensington, by Florence Caroline, daughter of Joseph Haycock, of Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk; b. May 21, 1875; adm. May 2, 1889 (H); left Dec. 1890; d. about 1944.