He was part of the Wales national football team between 1890 and 1894, playing 5 matches and scoring 3 goals.
[2] He played at club level for Shrewsbury Town, of which he was a founder player, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers prior to beginning his practice as a solicitor.
[5] He founded the law firm J C H Bowdler & Sons of Shrewsbury which later merged with the Lanyons of Wellington in 1988.
[4] From 1901 to his death he sat as a Conservative member for Belle Vue ward on Shrewsbury Borough Council, and was Conservative agent for the Shrewsbury constituency under its then MPs Sir Clement Lloyd Hill and George Butler Lloyd.
[4] During the First World War he served as a corporal in the Shropshire Regiment of the Volunteer Training Corps.