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Authorised form of nameBowen; Charles Synge Christopher (1835 - 1894); Baron Bowen
Dates1835 - 1894
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWoollaston, near Chepstow, Gloucestershire, England
Date of birth01 January 1835
Date of death10 April 1894
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Rugby; Balliol College, Oxford. BA (1857), MA (1872)
Career:
Called to the Bar (1861); Junior Counsel in the Tichborne Case, against the 'Claimant' (1871-1874); Judge of the Queen's Bench (1879); Judge of the Court of Appeal (1882); Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1883)
Honours:
Kt 1882; Baron 1893
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/05/1885
RelationshipsEldest son of Christopher Bowen, curate of Wollaston and his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Steele; married (1862) Emily Frances, daughter of James Meadows Rendel (FRS 1843)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 12 March 1892
Royal Society codeNA2837
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1885/01Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher, Baron Bowen: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/6/323Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Honourable Mr Justice Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Fellow of the Royal Society12 April 1892
NLB/8/310Copy letter from the Clerk [Theodore E James], to Messrs Harrison & Sons27 September 1893
NLB/2/657Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Lord Justice Bowen, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1888
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