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 against the Earl of Leicester. In his retirement he found time to translate from the French an Apologie for the Christians of France. He was restored to favour in 1583, and sent as Ambassador to Russia, where he distinguished himself by the assertion of his sovereign's dignity. Some account of his embassy appears in Hakluyt's Voyages. He was buried in Hackney Church, 28 March, 1616.



Admitted 12 May, 1654.

Second son of Sir Thomas Bowes, of Bromley Hall, Essex, and nephew of (q.v.). He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar 10 May, 1661, to the Bench 24 Oct. 1679, appointed Reader in 1684, and made Treasurer of the Inn in 1693. He is chiefly known as the editor of his uncle's well-known Journals (1682). He died about 1702, his will being proved by his widow in that year.



Admitted 1 June, 1836.

Eldest son of Sir George Bowyer, of Radley, Berkshire. He was born 8 Oct. 1811. He was for a short time a cadet at Woolwich. Though he practised at the Bar, to which he was called 7 June, 1839, as an Equity draughtsman, his energies were devoted chiefly to the literature of the law, in which he produced a series of treatises which have become text-books on the subjects, commencing with his treatise on The English Constitution in 1841. In 1850 he was appointed Reader in Law at the Middle Temple, and in the following year he published his course of lectures under the title of Readings delivered before the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple. In 1850 he was converted to Roman Catholicism, and he has left many pamphlets and writings relating to the constitutional position of the Catholic Hierarchy in England. In 1860 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. He died in his chambers in the Temple 7 June, 1883, and was buried in the church of St. John of Jerusalem, Bloomsbury, which he himself had built.



Admitted 25 April, 1842.

Eldest son of Dr. James Boyd, of Ochiltree, co. Ayr. He was born at Auchinleck Manse, Ayrshire, 3 Nov. 1825, and was educated at Glasgow University for the Scottish Ministry, which he entered in 1851. After holding many other cures he was appointed minister at St. Andrews, where he spent the rest of his life in ministerial and literary work. His first essays in the latter way were in the form of contributions to Fraser's Magazine, under the title of Recreations of a Country Parson, under the initials A. K. H. B., by which he is still best known. For his literary eminence the University of St. Andrews conferred upon him in 1889 the degree of LL.D. In 1890 he occupied the position of Moderator of the General Assembly, which he filled with "archiepiscopal dignity." He died 1 March, 1899, and was buried in the ground of the Cathedral of St. Andrews.

Besides the Recreations above alluded to, his best known writings, A. K. H. B. is the author of some twenty works to be found in most catalogues, including a memoir of himself, entitled Twenty-five years at St. Andrews (1892), with further Last Years (1896). Mr. Boyd refers to himself as the "only kirk minister who is a member of the Middle Temple."