Career
Bowden, from Frome, Somerset, was the author of two volumes of poems published from 1733-1735. From the Gentleman"s Magazine, to which he was an occasional contributor, it is deduced that he was living in 1761, while a passing mention of him in 1778 is in the past tense. Bowden was therefore a nonconformist, and may be a relative of the Review
John Bowden who preached Mistress
Rowe"s funeral sermon.