Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bowen, Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, Sir George Ferguson, g.c.m.g., 1s. Edward, of Bogay, near Londonderry, cler. Trinity Coll., matric. 16 June, 1840, aged 18, B.A. 1844; fellow Brasenose Coll. 1844, M.A. 1847, created D.C.L. 9 June, 1875, then governor of Victoria 1873-9, governor of Queensland 1859-68, of New Zealand 1868-73, of Mauritius 1879-83, and of Hong Kong 1883, entered a student at Lincoln's Inn 27 May, 1844, LL.D. Cambridge 1886, C.M.G. 1855, K.C.M.G. 1856, G.C.M.G. 16 April, 1860, privy councillor 1886.