John Edward Bowle (19 December 1905 – 17 September 1985) was an English historian and writer.
There his contemporaries included John Betjeman, who became a friend, and Anthony Blunt, about whom he was consistently negative.
He had worked briefly for Horace Plunkett, a position he had pushed Betjeman out of (1929).
[4] During World War II, he worked for the Air Ministry and the Foreign Office, and later took to writing books about British history.
He then took up an appointment in 1949 as Director of the Preparatory Session of the College of Europe at Bruges, where from 1950 to 1967, he became Professor of Political Theory.