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Bowerbank, J. S. (James Scott), 1797-1877
George Bowering was born on December 1, 1935, in Penticton, British Columbia.
He is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He attended Victoria College, the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1960; M.A., 1963), and the University of Western Ontario (1966-1967). In 1961, while at the University of British Columbia, he became one of the co-founders of the poetry newsletter TISH. Bowering held different occupations, e.g., an aerial photographer with the RCAF (1954-1957), fruit-picker, and editor of and contributor to magazines in Canada and the United States. He was a writer-in-residence and lecturer at Sir George Williams University (1967-1971) and a member of the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, Bowering was appointed the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia. Bowering lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and is Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University.
Bowes, Fanny Brimley, 1831-1903
Fanny Brimley grew up in Cambridge, England, the youngest daughter in a merchant family. Her father, Augustine Gutteridge Brimley, was an alderman and at one point mayor of the university town. Her half-brother, the son of her widowed father’s first wife (who was, coincidentally, her mother’s older sister) was essayist George Brimley, who was appointed librarian of Trinity College at the university in 1845. In 1868 Fanny married Robert Bowes who had been in the bookselling and publishing business since the age of eleven with his uncles Daniel and Alexander Macmillan; their now-global business was then just getting started. The family had three children and included Robert’s widowed mother when she returned from Illinois, where she and her husband had emigrated. Robert played a role in Cambridge civic life, serving as a town councillor for nine years. In 1899, their son, George Edmund Brimley Bowes, partnered with his father after the death of Uncle Alexander in 1896; in 1907, their company became Bowes & Bowes. After Fanny’s death, both Robert and George served as presidents of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association in 1914 and 1923 respectively. In 1918 Robert received an honorary MA degree from Cambridge.
Robert Bowes was born on August 22, 1835, in Scotland.
He was a bookseller and publisher. In 1846, he joined his uncle Daniel Macmillan’s successful Cambridge bookshop Macmillan & Co. as an apprentice. Later he became a full partner, and the bookshop became known as Macmillan & Bowes. His son George Brimley Bowes became a partner in 1899 and the business was renamed Bowes & Bowes in 1907. The firm continued as a family business until 1953 when it was acquired by W. H. Smith, who continued to operate it under the original name until 1986. In 1992, the famous old site became the home of the Cambridge University Press bookshop.
Bowes was prominent in Cambridge life from his early years, working with Alexander Macmillan and members of the university to found the Cambridge Working Men’s College in the 1850s. Later he joined Frederick Denison Maurice and Henry Sidgwick to promote the higher education of women – Newnham College was founded in 1875 as a result. He served as a town councillor, a governor of the Perse School and of the Old Schools, and as chairman of the Free Library Committee. In 1914, Bowes became president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. In 1918, Cambridge University conferred on him an honorary degree of Master of Arts.
In 1868, he married Frances (Fanny) Brimley. He died on February 9, 1919, in Cambridge, England.
Robert Arthur Bowie was a physician born in Brockville, Ontario. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in 1891. His institutional affiliations included: McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, 1891, (G), ENGL-15 Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1892, (G), and ENGL-11 Registrable Qualification Granted By English Conjoint Board, LRCP, 1892, (G).
He maintained an office on King Street in Brockville. On April 27, 1917, he arrived in France. He died after falling into an elevator shaft in 1920.