Background
He was born in London, the eldest son of John Bowden, of Fulham and Grosvenor Place.
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John Bowden
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Harrow School; Trinity College.
Career
In 1830 Bowden obtained mathematical honours, and on 24 November took his degree of Bachelor of Arts In collaboration with Newman, in the following year, he wrote a polemical poem in two cantos, Saint Bartholomew"s Eve On 4 June 1823 Bowden took his degree of Master of Arts In the autumn of 1826 he was appointed a commissioner of stamps, holding the position for fourteen years, resigning it on account of ill-health in 1840. From 1833 he keenly took part in the Tractarian movement. In the spring of 1839 Bowden was first attacked by tuberculosis, which proved fatal.
In the autumn of 1839 he went abroad with his family.
The winter of that year he died in Malta. During the summer of 1843 Bowden"s complaint returned with increased severity, and he died at his father"s house in Grosvenor Place.
Cardinal Newman attests emphatically that he died "In undoubting communion with the church of Andrewes and Laud," adding, with reference to his interment at Fulham, "he still lives here, the light and comfort of many hearts, who ask no happier, holier end than his."
They had two children, Charles Henry Bowden (1836–1906), a priest of the Birmingham Oratory, and Emily Frances Bowden (1833–1909), translator of Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn"s Fathers of the Desert. She died in 1896.
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Catholic