Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Mowbray, (Sir) John Robert (Bart.)
Mowbray, (Sir) John Robert (Bart.), o.s. Robert Stribling Cornish, of Exeter (city), arm. Christ Church, matric. 23 May, 1833, aged 17, student 1835-47, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839, created D.C.L. 30 Nov., 1869, hon. student 1876; hon. fellow Hertford Coll. 1875, created a baronet 3 May, 1880, and P.C. 1858, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1841, assumed the surname of Mowbray in lieu of Cornish by royal licence 26 July, 1847, M.P. Durham 1853-68, Oxford University since 1868, judge advocate general 1858-9 & 1866-8, Church Estates commissioner since 1871, member of Council of King's College, London, since 1877, etc. See Foster's Baronetage & Men at the Bar.