Frederick Orpen Bower FRSE FRS[1] (4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948) was an English botanist.

[3] Bower was born in Ripon in Yorkshire the son of Abraham Bower and Cornelia Morris, sister of the eminent botanist, Francis Orpen Morris.

He was educated at Repton School in Derbyshire before studying at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1877.

In 1880, he acquired a position as assistant lecturer in botany at University College, London under Thomas Huxley.

During this period he spent time at Kew Gardens studying with Dukinfield Henry Scott.