Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bowater, Sir Edward


Bowater, Sir Edward, k.c.h., created D.C.L. 15 June, 1841, lieut.-general in the army, colonel 49th regiment, equerry to H.R.H. Prince Albert 22 May, 1840-6, groom-in-waiting to the Queen 1846-61, served in the 3rd foot guards (Scots fusilier guards) 1804-37, through the Peninsular wars, wounded at Talavera and Waterloo, k.c.h. 1837; son of Edward Bowater, admiral of the White, born 13 July, 1787, died 14 Dec., 1861. See Foster's Our Noble and Gentle Families, ii. 67, and Gent.'s Mag.