Background
MACGOWAN, William Stuart was born in 1864. Son of A. T. Macgowan, Doctor of Medicine, late Surgeon (Staff) 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, formerly of Kingswood Park, near Bristol.
MACGOWAN, William Stuart was born in 1864. Son of A. T. Macgowan, Doctor of Medicine, late Surgeon (Staff) 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry, formerly of Kingswood Park, near Bristol.
Neuwied, Prussia; Paris. Bristol Grammar School. King’s College, Cambridge.
Master of Arts.
Doctor of Laws.
Grand Chaplain, South Africa, East.D., 1903-1904. 30°, 1905; Gained a Choral Scholarship at King’s, Cambridge. Took double honours, Medical and Mod.
Languages and Law.
Appointed Assistant Master at Cheltenham College, 18S8. House Master, 1896; Deacon and Chaplain to Cheltenham College, 1897. Chaplain of 1st Gloucestershire R.E. Volunteers, 1897.
Priest, 1898.
Member of the Council (elected by Convocation) of the University of the Cape of Good Hope. Member of the Rhodes University College Council. Examiner to the University in French and German for the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.
Doctor of Laws ad eundem of the Cape University, March 1903.
Principal of Saint Andrew’s College, Graham’s Town, Cape Colony, 1902-1908.
Club: Oxford and Cambridge.
Spouse 1889, Inez, 2nddaughter of George Augustus Passingham of The Grange, Heston, Middlesex, and g.-daughter of late Colonel Jonathan Passingham, Justice of the Peace, Doctorate.L., of Hendwr, Merionethshire, and Bonython, Cornwall.