Elizabeth Trevenen Bowdler (née Farquharson)

(b. Unknown, United Kingdom – d. 0000, United Kingdom )

Gender: F

Wife of Thomas Bowdler Jr. The couple married in 1806 at which point they Elizabeth was 48 and Thomas 52. It was Elizabeth's second marriage after she had been widowed by the naval Captain James Trevenen, who had died in Catherine the Great's service in 1790. The marriage was unhappy and after a few years they separated. They had no children. After the separation, the marriage was never mentioned in the Bowdler family. The biography of Bowdler by his nephew, Thomas Bowdler, makes no mention of him ever marrying.

Also known as:

Elizabeth Bowdler
Elizabeth Farquharson
Elizabeth Trevenen

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