George Bowers (priest) explained

George Hull Bowers (bapt. 30 March 1794 – 27 December 1872) was an Anglican priest who was Dean of Manchester from 1847 to 1871, and founder of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.[1] [2]

Born in Staffordshire,[3] he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1819. He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow in Bedfordshire, after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden,[4] followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.[5]

Notes and References

  1. 'New Dean of Manchester', The Times, Wednesday, Jun 23, 1847; pg. 6; Issue 19583; col A
  2. Web site: George Hull Bowers, Dean of Manchester: Papers . Cambridge University Library . 12 September 2024.
  3. Axon, W. E. A, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004)
  4. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0604bowers.html Papers of GH Bowers
  5. J. Brownbill;, William Farrer, W (ed), Victoria County History. A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, 1911

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