Moses Bowness

Born into a copper-miner's family, he built in Ambleside in the Lake District, England, the largest photographic business in Westmorland at that time.

In May 1857 he photographed the visiting party of the young Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.

He worked with the local people to save Stock Ghyll; and gave evidence to the Parliamentary Enquiry into the Railway extension, and used some of his views to support his argument.

His first wife was the widow of a local builder; his second the daughter and heiress of Josiah Hudleston, member of the East India Company and noted musician.

He built his lodging house, Vale View - now The Churchill Hotel - on the land in the foreground .