Lewin Bentham Bowring

Lewin Bentham Bowring (1824–1910) was a British Indian civil servant in British India who served as the Chief Commissioner of Mysore between 1862 and 1870. He was also an author and man of letters.

Early life Bowring was born in 1824. He was the second son of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), of Exeter, Devon, Governor of Hong Kong, and was a brother of John Charles Bowring and Edgar Alfred Bowring. He was educated at Mount Radford School.

Career Bowring joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1843. He became Assistant Resident at Lahore in 1847, and later joined the Punjab commission.

The Bowring Institute in Bangalore, which was founded by Lewis Rice in 1868, is named after him. Bowring also edited his father's notes and published Autobiographical Recollections of Sir John Bowring in 1877.