Benjamin Cowie Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. [Who's Who|“Who was Who”]
  2. "Mr Hopkins’ Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century" Craik, A.D.D: London, Springer, 2007
  3. Victoria County History A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 J. Brownbill; William Farrer, W (ed) 1911
  4. [The Times]