Thomas Fowler

Thomas Fowler (1 September 1832 – 20 November 1904) was an English academic and academic administrator, acting as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Early life Fowler was born 1832 in Burton upon Stather, Lincolnshire, son of William Henry Fowler and his wife, Mary Anne Welch. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and obtained a Postmastership (undergraduate) at Merton College, Oxford. In 1852, he took a second class in Classical moderations and a first class in mathematics, but he bettered that position in the final schools by taking a first class in classics followed by a first in mathematics in 1854.

President of Corpus In 1881, Fowler was elected, rather unexpectedly, to succeed Professor John Matthias Wilson as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He wrote its history in a well-researched volume displaying much patient research which was published by the Oxford Historical Society. He was Vice-Chancellor from 1899 to 1901. His health then failed, and he died unmarried at 12.30 p.m. on 21 November 1904, in his 73rd year.

Selected works Bacon Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (1881) The Elements of Inductive Logic Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1883) Logic, Deductive and Inductive Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1904) Novum organum by Francis Bacon, Thomas Fowler (ed., notes, etc.) MacMillan and Co., Clarendon Press, Oxford (1878) The Principles of Morals (Introductory Chapters) Oxford at the Clarendon Press (1886), Part II (1887) Progressive Morality:an Essay in Ethics Macmillan and Co., Oxford (1884) Shaftesbury and Hutcheson (English Philosophers) Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington (1882)