About Ivor Bowen
Lived 1862 – 1934 (aged 71–72). Ivor Bowen was a British judge and barrister.
Ivor Bowen (1862 - 1934) was a Welsh lawyer, County Court judge and author.
Born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, Bowen was the son of J. Bowen Jones, an independent minister. Whilst still a young man, Bowen moved to London and worked for a bank.
In 1886, Bowen became a student of Gray's Inn and 1889 was called to the Bar. He is known to have practiced law in the Cardiff area as a revising barrister between 1905 and 1912. His other positions included: Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil (1914–15), Recorder of Swansea (1915–18), County Court Judge (Mid Wales Circuit) (1918–33), and Treasurer of Gray's Inn (1923).
Bowen's published writings include: The Statutes of Wales (1908), and The Great Enclosures of Common Lands in Wales (1914).
Bowen died in 1934.
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Who was Ivor Bowen?
Welsh county court judge (1862-1934)
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Ivor Bowen was born in 1862 in Bridgend.
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Ivor Bowen died on 8 January 1934.
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Ivor Bowen was a judge and barrister.
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Ivor Bowen was British.
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