Foote Gower

Foote Gower (1725/6–1780) was an English cleric, academic and antiquarian.

Life The son of the Rev. Foote Gower, M.A. and M.D., a physician in Chester, he was born there about 1726. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 15 March 1744, aged 18, and took his degrees of B.A. in 1747, M.A. in 1750, M.B. in 1755, and M.D. in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of his college in 1750. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1768, and had Richard Gough as a close friend. He died at Bath, Somerset on 27 May 1780. It was signed "a Fellow of the Antiquary Society", and reissued in 1772. He made collections also for a history of Essex, and a new edition of John Horsley's Britannia Romana.

Family Gower married Elizabeth, a sister of John Strutt, Member of Parliament for Maldon. They had four children: Thomas Foote Gower (1763-1849), who became a vicar at Great Totham Elizabeth, who lived for many year with her brother Thomas. Charles Gower M.D. (died 1822) was author of Hints and Auxiliaries to Medicine, Richard Hall Gower (1768–1833), the naval architect.