George Bowers (priest) explained

George Hull Bowers was Dean of Manchester in the mid part of the 19th century.^[1]

Born in Staffordshire in 1794,^[2] he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1819. He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden^[3] followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester. He died on 27 December 1872.^[4]

Notes and References

1. 'New Dean of Manchester', The Times, Wednesday, Jun 23, 1847; pg. 6; Issue 19583; col A
2. Axon, W. E. A, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004)
3. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0604bowers.html Papers of GH Bowers
4. J. Brownbill;, William Farrer, W (ed), Victoria County History. A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, 1911