Author:Charles Synge Christopher Bowen

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen
(1835/1831–1894)

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen

Works

• contributed to Men of the Time 12th ed.

Judgments

He is credited with coining the phrase "the man on the Clapham omnibus", which was quoted by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR many years after his death in the case of McQuire v. Western Morning News ([1903] 2 KB 100).

• Harben v Phillips (1883) 23 Ch D 14
• Hutton v West Cork Railway (1883) 23 Ch D 654
• Abrath v North Eastern Railway 7 QBD 440
• Thomas v Quartermaine 18 QBD 685
• Edgington v Fitzmaurice (1885) 29 Ch D 459, "the state of a man's mind is as much a fact as the state of his digestion", securities-fraud case dealing with false statements of intention
• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1892] EWCA Civ 1
• Vagliano v Bank of England 23 QBD 243, prepared the majority judgment of the court, held wrong in conclusion by the majority of the House of Lords
• Mogul Steamship Company v McGregor (1889) 23 QBD 598
• Angus v Dalton 6 App Cas 740

Works about Bowen

• "Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Bowen, Sir Charles Synge Christopher," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Synge Christopher, Knt.," in Men-at-the-Bar (2nd ed.), by Foster, J., London: Hazel, Watson and Viney, Limited (1885)
• "Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher," in A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (p. 25), by John Hutchinson, London: Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (1902)
• "Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)