George Hull Bowers ( 30 March 1794 – 27 December 1872) was an Anglican priest who was Dean of Manchester from 1847 to 1871, and founder of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.'New Dean of Manchester', The Times, Wednesday, Jun 23, 1847; pg. 6; Issue 19583; col A
Born in Staffordshire,Axon, W. E. A, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1819. He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow in Bedfordshire, after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden,Papers of GH Bowers followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.J. Brownbill;, William Farrer, W (ed), Victoria County History. A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, 1911
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