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BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.

BOVILL, SIR ELLIOT CHARLES, brother of William Edward Bovill (qv); b. 23 Apr 1848; adm. 28 Jan 1857 [check]; QS 1863; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1867, matr. 12 Jun 1867; BA 1871; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Apr 1869, called to bar 27 Jan 1873; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; hon. sec., Elizabethan Club, 1873-9; Assist. Judicial Commissioner, Cyprus, 1879-81, Judicial Commissioner 1881-3, Chief Justice 1883-92; knighted 11 Aug 1884; Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements from 13 Aug 1892 ; m. 27 Jul 1876 Anna, younger dau. of Rev. John Tahourdin White DD, Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London; d. at Singapore 24 Mar 1893.

BOVILL, WILLIAM EDWARD, eldest son of William John Bovill QC, James Street, Buckingham Gate, London, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Emma --- (IGI); b. 9 Aug 1839; adm. 3 Feb 1852; QS 1854; left Whitsun 1858; London Univ.; became a civil engineer; Assistant Master and Bursar Jan 1869 – May 1883 ; House Master of Homeboarders at 1 Dean’s Yard Sep 1880 – Aug 1882, of Ashburnham Sep 1882 – May 1883.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jan 1873; emigrated to Western Australia, where he became a fruit farmer, later moving to Tasmania; m. 9 Aug 1883 Persis, youngest dau. of John Percy Baumgartner, Milton, Cambs.; d. at Thornhill, Devonport East, Tasmania, 22 Apr 1916.

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, REUBEN, of Middlesex; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1656 (1st and 3rd quarters); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1656, adm. pens. 14 May 1656, scholar 1656, matr. Lent 1657/8; BA 1659/60; MA 1663; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1661- c. 1698; signed for deacon’s and priest’s orders (London) 19 Sep 1663; Curate, Fulbourn, Cambs. ; Vicar of Fulbourn St. Vigors, Cambs. , 1667.

BOWEN, THOMAS, of Shropshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 1 May 1654, scholar 1654, matr. Easter 1656; BA 1657/8.

BOWEN, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS 1700; left 1701.

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.

BOWMAN, NICHOLAS, second son of Nicholas Bowman, Westminster, and Susan Barron, Kent; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 21 Jul 1634; adm.; KS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 2 Oct 1652; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Jul 1655.