John Bowdler

(b. Feb. 4, 1783, London, England – d. Feb. 1, 1815, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London )

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John Bowdler (1783-1815), was a lawyer and author and poet; Montagu Pennington praised him as “one who promised to be the most distinguished and shining ornament of a race in which there are and have been so many persons eminent for virtue, talent, and religion”, and described Select Pieces in Prose and Verse, published posthumously, as “valuable and edifying”. Bowdler’s daughter Jane married George Gipps, MP for Ripon. John Bowdler was the brother of Thomas Bowdler and the sister of Harriet Bowdler, famous for their edition of Shakespeare.

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