George Bowers (priest)

The Very Rev George Hull Bowers, DD, was Dean of Manchester in the mid part of the 19th Century.^[1]

Born in Staffordshire in 1794,^[2] he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and ordained in 1819.^[3] He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden^[4] followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester. He died on 27 December 1872.^[5]

Notes

1. 'New Dean of Manchester', The Times, Wednesday, Jun 23, 1847; pg. 6; Issue 19583; col A
2. Axon, W. E. A, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 0-19-861411-X
3. "Bowers, George Hull (BWRS819GH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. Papers of GH Bowers
5. J. Brownbill;, William Farrer,W (ed), Victoria County History. A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, 1911