About John Bowers
Lived 1854 – 1926 (aged 71). John Bowers was a British anglican priest.
John Phillips Allcot Bowers (15 May 1854 – 6 January 1926) was Bishop of Thetford in the Church of England in 1903–1926.
John Bowers was born in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, and educated at Magdalen School and St John's College, Cambridge. His first post after ordination was as a Curate at Coggeshall. From 1882 to 1903 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester and went on to be Diocesan Missioner and a Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral (1890–1902). In January 1902, he was appointed Archdeacon of Gloucester before his appointment as Bishop of Thetford and Archdeacon of Lynn in 1903 which refers to Kings Lynn.
A prominent Freemason, he died in Norwich.
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Bishop of Thetford; British Anglican bishop and Freemason
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John Bowers was born on 15 May 1854 in Portsmouth.
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John Bowers died on 6 January 1926.
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John Bowers was an anglican priest.
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John Bowers was British.
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