George Bower (priest)
George Buckley Bower (1748–c. 1800)[1][2][3] was an English churchman and academic. He was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1797 until his death.[4]
Life[edit]
He was the son of Buckley Bower, an attorney in Stockport. He was born there, baptised there on 30 June 1848, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School.[1][5][6] He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1764, graduating B.A. in 1768.[2] In 1769 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.[7]
From 1787 Bower was the incumbent at Great Billing, becoming also Archdeacon of Richmond in 1797.[8] He died at Aspenshaw Hall, Derbyshire. One source gives the date of death as 26 December 1800.[5] Other sources state he died in 1801.
Family[edit]
Bower was married, his wife dying in 1800, before he did. A daughter Frances survived them, dying in 1815.[9]
He was the nephew of Edward Penny, who left him notes of his lectures as first professor of painting at the Royal Academy.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Earwaker, John Parsons (1877). East Cheshire: Past and Present: Or, A History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester. From Original Records. The author. p. 411.
- ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Aspenshaw Hall
- ^ OXFORD, January 3 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, 3 January 1801 > the article says he died "A few days since died Geo. Buckley Bower"
- ^ a b Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Chetham Society. 1866. p. 79.
- ^ Robson, Derek (1966). Some aspects of education in cheshire in the eighteen century. Manchester University Press. p. 211.
- ^ Brasenose College Fellows 1509-1909
- ^ "Bower, George Buckley (172–1801) (CCEd Person ID 22962)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Bench, Great Britain Court of King's; Barnewall, Richard Vaughan; Cresswell, Sir Cresswell (1828). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters. J. Butterworth and son. pp. 384–5.
- ^ Edelstein, T. J. "Penny, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21879. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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