Background
He was born in Parramatta to baker John Bowes (later a Wesleyan clergyman) and Euphemia Allen, a temperance reformer and suffragette.
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John Bowes
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He was a commercial agent around Morpeth and Tamworth and from 1885 was principal promoter of the Hunter River Farmers" and Consumers" Cooperative Company. He served a period as mayor of Morpeth. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Protectionist member for Morpeth.
Defeated in 1889, he was re-elected in 1891.
His seat was abolished in 1894 and he was defeated running for the urban seat of Newtown-Street Peters. Bowes died in Sydney in 1897.
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February 4, 1897 (aged 53) -
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Australian