Henry Bowlby

This article is about the bishop, Henry Bond Bowlby. For his son, the headmaster Henry Thomas Bowlby, see Henry Bowlby (priest).

Henry Bowlby, 1862 photograph
Stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones in St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham in memory of Bowlby

Henry Bond Bowlby (23 August 1823 – 27 August 1894) was an English churchman, the Bishop of Coventry (a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Worcester) from 1891 until 1894.[1]

Life

Born on 23 August 1823, son of Captain Peter Bowlby and Elizabeth Haslewood, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated a Doctor of Divinity (DD). He was Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Dartford, from 1867 to 1874 and became Rector of St Philip's, Birmingham in 1875, a post he retained upon becoming the first suffragan Bishop of Coventry in 1891. He was consecrated a bishop at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 September 1891, by Edward Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[2] He continued in both positions until his death on 27 August 1894, aged 71 years.[3][4][5]

Family

Bowlby married firstly, Catherine Salmon, on 29 September 1852, and they had five children. After Catherine's death in 1875, he married secondly, Sarah Blowers King, on 21 September 1886.[3][4] He was the father of Henry Thomas Bowlby, headmaster of Lancing school.[6]

References

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0.
  2. ^ "Consecration of five bishops". Church Times. No. 1497. 2 October 1981. p. 935. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 3 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  3. ^ a b Obituary of Bishop Bowlby, Worcester Journal,1 September 1894.
  4. ^ a b Henry Bond Bowlby. thePeerage.com. Retrieved on 27 November 2008.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bowlby, Henry Bond" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  6. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Bowlby, Henry Thomas" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
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first suffragan
 Bishop of Coventry
1891–1894 		Succeeded by


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