John Bowen (alderman)

Alderman John Bowen JP (16 December 1844 – 16 April 1926)[1] was a British businessman and was High Sheriff of Worcestershire.

[2] In 1875, he founded the firm of builders, John Bowen and Sons, in Birmingham, which was subsequently responsible for several notable buildings, not least Victoria Law Courts, and several others, on Corporation Street in that city.

[2][3] Bowen is buried, with his second wife, at Brandwood End Cemetery.

[1] In 2014 the Birmingham Civic Society unveiled a blue plaque in his honour, with the intention of affixing it to another of his buildings, a school now known as The Ark Academy in Tindal Street, in the city's Balsall Heath.

[2] The unveiling was attended by three High Sheriffs, for the West Midlands (Tim Watts), Powys (Philip Bowen), and Worcestershire (Michael Hogan), as well as Deputy Lord Lieutenant David Bradnock.