Honorific-Prefix: | The Very Reverend |
Benjamin Cowie | |
Order: | Dean of Exeter |
Term Start: | 1883 |
Term End: | 1900 |
Order2: | Dean of Manchester |
Term Start2: | 1872 |
Term End2: | 1883 |
Nationality: | British |
Benjamin Morgan Cowie was Dean of Manchester and then Exeter, both in England, in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Born on 8 June 1816,[1] he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated Senior Wrangler in 1839.[2] Ordained in 1841 he was successively Tutor, Lecturer and Fellow at his old college. Afterwards he was Vicar of St Lawrence Jewry followed by an 11-year spell in Manchester,[3] followed by a further 17 at Exeter. He died on 3 May 1900.[4]