Frederick Rowbottom (16 January 1938 – 12 October 2009) was a British logician and mathematician.
[1] Upon leaving Cambridge, he studied under Howard Jerome Keisler at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning his Ph.D. degree in 1964, with a thesis entitled Large Cardinals and Small Constructible Sets, under the supervision of Jerome Keisler.
[2] With a recommendation from Georg Kreisel, he took a position at the University of Bristol in 1965, where he spent the rest of his professional career.
In 1992 he and a student, Jonathan Chapman, wrote a textbook on topos theory, Relative Category Theory and Geometric Morphisms: A Logical Approach, published in Oxford Logic Guides, No.
Rowbottom died of heart failure in Hadfield, Derbyshire, England, on 12 October 2009, aged 71.