Background
He was the second son of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), of Exeter, Devon, Governor of Hong Kong, and was a brother of John Charles Bowring and Edgar Alfred Bowring.
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He was the second son of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), of Exeter, Devon, Governor of Hong Kong, and was a brother of John Charles Bowring and Edgar Alfred Bowring.
He was also an author and man of letters. Bowring joined the Bengal Civil Service in 1843. He became Assistant Resident at Lahore in 1847, and later joined the Punjab commission.
From 1858 to 1862, he was private secretary to the Viceroy of India, Lord Canning.
Bowring served as Chief Commissioner of Mysore from 1862 to 1870. This was during the period between 1831 and 1881 when the Maharaja of Mysore had been dispossessed of his state by the British Raj and Mysore was being administered by the Mysore Commission.
The Bowring Institute in Bangalore, which was founded by Lewis Rice in 1868, is named after him. During the last year of his incumbency, Bowring also served as the first Chief Commissioner of Coorg.
He was created Companion of the Star of India (Computer Society of India) in 1867.
He retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1870 and returned to England the same year.
