The Venerable Percy Harris Bowers (1856–1922) was an eminent

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priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bowers was born at

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, and baptised 30 July 1856. He was educated at The Forest School and

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, graduating BA in 1880. Ordained in 1880, he was

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of Market Bosworth from 1886 and then Rural Dean of

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; and an Honorary Canon of Peterborough from 1913. He was the second

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of Loughborough and Warden of the Mission Clergy of the Diocese of Peterborough. “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London,

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, 2007

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1856 births People educated at Forest School, Walthamstow Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Loughborough 1922 deaths {{Christianity-bio-stub