George Bowers (priest)

George Hull Bowers (bapt.

30 March 1794 – 27 December 1872) was an Anglican priest who was Dean of Manchester from 1847 to 1871, and founder of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.

[1][2] Born in Staffordshire,[3] he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1819.

[4] He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow in Bedfordshire, after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden,[5] followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.

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