A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bowyer, Sir George
Admitted 1 June, 1836.
Eldest son of Sir George Bowyer, of Radley, Berkshire. He was born 8 Oct. 1811. He was for a short time a cadet at Woolwich. Though he practised at the Bar, to which he was called 7 June, 1839, as an Equity draughtsman, his energies were devoted chiefly to the literature of the law, in which he produced a series of treatises which have become text-books on the subjects, commencing with his treatise on The English Constitution in 1841. In 1850 he was appointed Reader in Law at the Middle Temple, and in the following year he published his course of lectures under the title of Readings delivered before the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple. In 1850 he was converted to Roman Catholicism, and he has left many pamphlets and writings relating to the constitutional position of the Catholic Hierarchy in England. In 1860 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy. He died in his chambers in the Temple 7 June, 1883, and was buried in the church of St. John of Jerusalem, Bloomsbury, which he himself had built.