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

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

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

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bower, George Buckley" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ↑ Aspenshaw Hall
  4. ↑ 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"
  5. 1 2 Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Chetham Society. 1866. p. 79.
  6. ↑ Robson, Derek (1966). Some aspects of education in cheshire in the eighteen century. Manchester University Press. p. 211.
  7. ↑ Brasenose College Fellows 1509-1909
  8. ↑ "Bower, George Buckley (172–1801) (CCEd Person ID 22962)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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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