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BOWDEN—BOWEN.  station; was appointed Colonel of Marines 22 July, 1830; attained the rank of Rear-Admiral 10 Jan. 1837; was lastly employed, from 26 July, 1837, until the same month in 1842, as Admiral-Superintendent at Portsmouth, with his flag on borad the 104; and became a Vice-Admiral 9 Nov. 1846.

Vice-Admiral Bouverie, who is a Deputy-Lieutenant for Wiltshire, and has been several times returned to Parliament as the representative of different places in that co., married, 27 Dec. 1809, Louisa, second daughter of the late Joseph Hay, Esq.; and has an only daughter, Louisa, married, 2 April, 1832, to Capt. Hon. Sam. Hay, 7th Foot, brother of the Earl of Erroll.

 BOWDEN. 

entered the Navy, 26 May, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board 36, Capt. Chas. Adam, under whom, after contributing to the defeat, in June, 1805, of a division of the French flotilla, which was driven under the batteries at Fécamp, he successively removed, as Midshipman, to the 38, and  74, employed off the coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, and in the Mediterranean. Between Oct. 1810, and Oct. 1813, we find him serving, at the siege of Cadiz and on the Home and West India stations, in the 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander,, Capt. Robt. Hall, 74, Capt. John Spratt Rainier,  28, Capt. Sam. Deckar, and, as Master’s Mate, in the 22, and  sloop, Capts. Thos. Huskisson, Rich. Plummer Davies, and John Gore. He was confirmed to a Lieutenancy in the latter vessel, bearing the flag at the time of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown, 16 March, 1814; and, invaliding home in April, 1815, was afterwards appointed – 5 April, 1831, to a three years’ command in the Coast Guard – and, 26 June, 1837, to the 104, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Hon. Buncombe Pleydell Bouverie. He has been on half-pay since Feb. 1840.

 BOWDEN. 

entered the Navy, 12 June, 1805, as A.B., on board the 38, Capts. Lord Mark Robt. Kerr and Sir Wm. Bolton, under the latter of whom he was present, as Midshipman, at the taking of Curaçoa, 1 Jan. 1807. He afterwards served, in 1808-9, in the 36, Capt. E. Dickson, and  98, Capt. D. M‘Leod; from 1809 to 1812, as Second Master and Master’s Mate, in the  74, Capt. Sam. Hood Linzee, employed at the defence of Cadiz; in 1813-14, part of the time as Acting-Lieutenant, in the 74, bearing the flag of the latter officer at Gibraltar; and in 1814-15, as Master’s Mate, in the, Capt. Hall, and  104, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Josias Rowley. He was placed on half-pay in Aug. 1815, having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant on 22 of the previous February, and has not since been afloat.

 BOWDEN. 

entered the Navy, 17 Aug. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. the Earl of Northesk, with whom, when Rear-Admiral, he was present, as Midshipman, in the same ship, at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805. He was next employed for some time in the 74, Capt. Wm. Shields, and also in the 74, flag-ship, during the hostilities of 1807 against Copenhagen, of Rear-Admiral Wm. Essington. After an attachment of a few months, in the early part of 1808, to the 110, bearing the flag, off Lisbon, of Sir Chas. Cotton, Mr. Bowden joined the sloop, Capt. Thos. Dench, under whom, during a continuance of more than four years on the Portuguese and Mediterranean stations, he contributed to the capture of several privatetrs, and of one of them while serving in the boats. From the he removed, in July, 1814, to the  36, Capt. John Clavell, employed in Chesapeake Bay. He was made Lieutenant, 9 Feb. 1815, into the 18, Capt. Dan. Barker; returned home from Rio Janeiro, in July of the same year, on board the 74, Capt. Aiskew Paffard Hollis; and since 25 Apnl, 1842, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

He married, 19 Dec. 1825, Jane, daughter of the late Rev. Jas. Stanley, Vicar of Ormskirk, Lancashire, and sister of Stanley, R.N.  – Messrs. Chard.

 BOWDEN. 

entered the Navy, 1 June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board 36, Capt. Anthony Hunt, on the Channel station; attained the rating of Midshipman in Sept. following; and, after serving for more than six years in the  36, Capts. Wm. Luke and Wm. Bowen, employed off Lisbon and in the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the capture of many privateers and other armed vessels, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 29 April, 1802. His appointments, in the latter capacity, were – in July, 1803, to the Weymouth District of Sea Fencibles – 5 May, 1804, to the 98, Capts. Manley Dixon and Fras. Pender, in the Channel – 4 July, 1805, to the 100, Capt. Mark Robinson, lying at Portsmouth – 14 Aug. 1805, to the  32, Capts. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, Geo. M‘Kinley, Lord Viscount Falkland, and Hon. Geo. Paulet, under the third of whom he witnessed the surrender of the Danish island of Heligoland, 5 Sept. 1807 – 16 May, 1810, after an unemployed interval of 13 months, to the 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, attached to the fleet in the Channel – and, 22 Nov. 1810, and 8 May, 1811, to the 80, and  120, bearing each the flag in the Downs and Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew. Being superseded from the latter ship on advancement to his present rank, 5 Aug. 1813, Commander Bowden, on 15 Oct. following, assumed command of the hospital-ship, which for some time bore the flag, at Port Mahon, Minorca, of Vice-Admiral Fras. Pickmore, and subsequently, in 1814-15, after serving on the coast of North America, formed part of the expedition sent against New Orleans. His last appointment was, 16 May, 1815, to the 50, in which he served at Portsmouth for a period of three months.

Commander Bowden, who has been twice married, wedded first the youngest daughter of the Rev. R. Hawker, D.D., Vicar of Charles, Devon. By his second marriage he has issue.

 BOWEN. 

, born in 1812, is son of the late Capt. Wm. Hawkwell Bowen, R.N., by Susannah, sister of the present Capt. Sir Wm. Geo. Parker, Bart., R.N.; and godson and protege of H.R.H. the late Duke of Sussex. He had two uncles of his own name, both Post-Captains, one of whom, the gallant Rich. Bowen, commanded the 32, under Lord Nelson, at Teneriffe, and met a glorious death while spiking the guns at the Mole.

This officer entered the Navy in 1821, and while attached, with Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen, to the, , and , assisted in surveying the continent of Africa, the islands of Madagascar and France, the Seychelles, and parts of India and Arabia. He also visited South America, and endured many hardships consequent on the Ashantee war and other causes. He next, in 1825, joined the 120, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Robt. Moorsom, and, after holding command for some time of her tender, became attached to the 46, Capts. Gordon and Seymour, in which frigate he made a voyage to Russia. He was selected in 1827 to assist Capt. Henry Wolsey Bayfield in the survey of the river St. Lawrence and coast of Labrador; passed his