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 236 APPRNDIX. PeUr Bobort Piiimiiovi>.Bdbrb£X, formarhi Bobbw.! Lobd Willoooiibt db Eunrr. 8b« wm &. 10 June 1841. FmmUt Atofei.~TheM, to 1888, cooMted of 14,082 mtm in Argylklure, uid 1,854 io RnfrewBhire. Tote/, 16,886 aiann, worth £6,465 a yew, ezdiuiTe of £1,906 for "^ ' ' ' 5eat.— Bljthswood Houm^ oo. Rflofrew. BOWEN OF COLWOOD. Baronv i. «< Thb Kt. Hon. Sir Ghablb Stnqb Ghbibtophkb tor laft. BOWSN, oue of tka Lords Jiutioet of Appcttl," was appointed, 23 tSep. L 1893, 1893, a l^HD ow ArrsAL » 0BDi]f4BT (under "iiU mippdlaU Io JurMkiiffn Act, JS76"} being granted the dignity of a Baron fur 1894 ^^^^'^ ^y ^^ *^^^* ^ BABON BOWEN OP OOLWOOD, oo. Siusez. He was 1st s. of the Bev. Qiristopher Bowm, of Hollymoont, oo. Mayo, sometime Bector of St Tbomaa, Winchester, by Oitherine,(^) da. of Sir Biohard Stkblb, Sd Bart. [I.] He waa 6. at Woohyiton. near Chepatow, 29 Aug. 1881 ; ed. at Bugby (1843), and at BalL Coll., Oxford ; Scholar, 1854 ; 1st class Mod., 1866-7 ; Pellow, 1857 ; B.A. and 1st dass, 1858 ; having obtained the Hertford scholarship in 1855 ; the Ireland and Latin Tene in 1857» imd the Arnold prise in 1859 ; M.A., 1872, being or. D.C.L., 13 June 1883. He waa Barrister (Line Inn), 1861 ; Junior Standing Counsel to the Treasury and Becorder of Pensauce, 1872 ; one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Couri of Justice, 1879-82, being knighted, 26 June 1879; one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, 1882-98 ; Hon. LL.D. of Ediuburgh, 1888 ; F.B.S. He waa, 23 Sep. 1893, made a Lord of Appeal and ratt«tf to the peerage as above stated. He si., 7 Jan. 1862, at St. John's, Paddingtoo, Emily Francea, sister of Stuart, Ist Barom Bsitdsl or Hatoh- LaVM, 1st da. of James Meadows Birdbl, of Plymouth, Civil Engineer, F.BJ3., by Catherine Jane, da. of W. James Hahmis, of Plymouth. He d. 8.p. of " a cruel disease, borne with exemplary patience," in Princes gardens, 10 April 1894. aged 59, and was 5tir. at Slaugbam, Sussex, when the peerage became exiimeL(*) WiU pr. at £26,994 personalty. His widow d., after a long illness, st 2 Queen's Gate gardens. 24 and wss lur. 27 Msich 1897, at Slaugham. WUI pr. at £34,250 penonalty. (•) See vol. i, p. 357, note '* a " tub, '* BUokbum " as to the nature and extant of these creations. {^) Frances, one of her sitters, si. John Synge, of Qlanmore Csstle, co. Wioklow, while Emily, another sister, m. the Bev. Bdwsrd Synge ; hence doubtless her son wss named "Synge." (*) He is spoken of, by one who knew him well, as " of an amiable disposition ; a baby face and mincing manner ; a subtle mind and ready wit ; entirely devoid of humbug." The Timet [1 2 Feb. 1897], writes of him ss " versatile, many sided, gifted, and nimble minded, ' delightfully clever ' as his first schoolmsster characterised him, and possessed of fascinating social gifts. As counsel he wss matchless in industry ; wiUk juries he wss not very successful." Some of his witty sayings are widely known, e»g,, that the Judges' address to the Sovereign should not run "conscious as we are of our shortoomwgs," but "conscious ss we are of oue another's short- comings," as also his paraphnuse of the title of a work, called *' Defence of the Choreh of England, by a Beneficed deiigyman," as " Defence of the 89 srtioles by a bandJkU holder for value." His distinguished career as a scholar, wss succeeded by one hardly leis so at the Bar. He was a member of the Western Circuit ; was junior counsel (Coleridge, afterwards Chief Justice, beinff the senior) for the infant heir in the fint " Tlchbome trial " and again (¥rith Hawkins, Q.C.), at the longer criminal trial that followed ; he was complimented by Ch. Justice Coleridge for his alue summing up of the Duke of Norfolk's [successful] claim to the Fitsalau chapel attached to Arundel church. His life, by Sir Henry Cunningham, was pub. in 1897. A touching tribute wss paid to him by the Msster of the Bolls, Lord E^her, who declared in the Court of Appeal, soon after his death, that in his opinion, Bowen *' was the most distinguished Judse who had sat in an English Court during the long perifid [more than 50 years] of his acquaintance with the occupants of the English bench." His 7 months tenure of office aa a Lord of Appeal was even less than that of Loxd Hannen, whom he sue. therein and who d, but a few days (29 March 1894) before him.