Background
BOWER, Robert Lister was born on August 12, 1860 in Firby Hall, Yorkshire. Son of late Robert Bower of Welham Hall, Malton, and Marcia, daughter of late Sir John Lister Kaye, Baronet.
BOWER, Robert Lister was born on August 12, 1860 in Firby Hall, Yorkshire. Son of late Robert Bower of Welham Hall, Malton, and Marcia, daughter of late Sir John Lister Kaye, Baronet.
Harrow School.
Bower went to Harrow School in 1874 and was later commissioned into the Kerry Militia, from where he transferred to the King"s Royal Rifle Corps in 1881. He served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882 and fought at Tel-el-Mahuta, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir. He also served in the 1884 Sudan Campaign, fighting at El Teb and Tamai, where he was mentioned in dispatches, and in the Nile Expedition of 1884–1885, being mentioned in dispatches twice more.
In 1892 he served with the Jebu expedition in West Africa and from 1892 to 1893 he was Political Officer at Jebu Ode.
From 1893 to 1897 he was British Resident at Ibadan, Nigeria. In 1898 he was appointed Chief Constable of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
He served in this role until his death, with a break in 1914–1916 when he returned to the Army as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Egypt. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1920 civilian war honours and was promoted to Knight Commander (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1925 Birthday Honours.
Bower died suddenly from heart failure brought on by pneumonia.
Clubs: Yorkshire, Naval and Military.