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.
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- https://collections.westminster.org.uk/index.php/college-1