Theodore Louis Bowring

Theodore Louis Bowring, CMG, OBE (29 July 1901 – 24 June 1967) is a British engineer and a colonial civil servant. He was the Director of Public Works in British Honduras, Nyasaland and Hong Kong.

Biography Educated at Chatham House School, Ramsgate and Thames Nautical Training College, Bowring studied at the Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering from 1920 to 1922. He served as a midshipman in the RNR from 1918 to 1919 during the World War I.

He served in the colonial service in 1925 after four years of practical training with Sir John Jackson Ltd under Percy Hall. He was specialised in municipal engineering, mainly bridges, buildings and hydro-electric projects. He worked in Gold Coast, Federated Malay States, British Honduras, Nyasaland and Hong Kong. He was an Executive Engineering, Public Works in Gold Coast and was an Assistant Engineer to Topham, Jones & Railton Ltd, contractors, on the Perak River contract of constructing a dam and a power plant.

He was appointed Adviser on Engineering Appointments in 1958 to the Colonial Office and then to the Department of Technical Co-operation from 1958 to 1961. He acted as Consultant to Scott, Wilson, Kirkpatrick & Partners from 1962 to 1965 on major engineering projects overseas.

For his colonial services, he was awarded the OBE in 1948 and CMG in 1955. He was also a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

He died in 1967, survived by his wife and one daughter.