John Phillips Allcot Bowers (15 May 1854 – 6 January 1926) was
Bishop of Thetford in the
Church of England
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in 1903–1926.
John Bowers was born in
Portsea, Portsmouth
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Portsea Island has the third-largest population of all th ...
,
Hampshire
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and educated at
Magdalen School
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and
St John's College, Cambridge
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. His first post after
ordination
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was as a
Curate
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at
Coggeshall. From 1882 to 1903 he was
Domestic Chaplain
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to the
Bishop of Gloucester and went on to be
Diocesan
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History
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Missioner and a
Residentiary Canon
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Originally, a canon was a cleric living with others in a ...
at
Gloucester Cathedral
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(1890–1902). In January 1902, he was appointed
Archdeacon of Gloucester
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History
The first ...
before his appointment as Bishop of Thetford and
Archdeacon of Lynn in 1903 which refers to
Kings Lynn
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.
A prominent
Freemason
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,
['The Bishop Of Thetford', '']The Times
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'', Thursday, Jan 7, 1926; pg. 14; Issue 44163; col B he died in
Norwich
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.
References
1854 births
People educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Gloucester
Bishops of Thetford
Archdeacons of Lynn
1926 deaths
20th-century Church of England bishops
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