Henry Gower (or Henry de Gower) was a medieval

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yer, college

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, university chancellor, and

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. Gower was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in

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and

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during 1322–24. He was a professor of

. He was briefly Archdeacon of St David's in Wales before becoming

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from 1328 to 1347.

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