About George Bowers
Lived 1794 – 1872 (aged 77–78). George Bowers was a British anglican priest.
George Hull Bowers ( 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.
Born in Staffordshire, 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, followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.
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Who was George Bowers?
British priest and antiquarian (1794-1872)
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George Bowers was born in 1794.
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George Bowers died in 1872.
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George Bowers was an anglican priest.
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George Bowers was British.
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