Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Nower, Francis

1416861Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 41 — Nower, Francis1895Lionel Henry Cust

NOWER or NOWERS, FRANCIS (d. 1670), herald-painter, belonged to a family long seated at Ashford and Pluckley in Kent. Nower was employed for many years in the ordinary avocation of an heraldic painter, especially during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1660 he edited the fourth edition of Guillim's ‘Display of Heraldry’ before the restoration of Charles II, after which event a new edition was issued, omitting certain additions under the Commonwealth. Nower resided in Bartholomew Lane, near the Exchange, in London; in 1670 a fire broke out there, in which Nower, with two of his children and two servants, perished. Administration of his effects was granted on 15 Aug. 1670 to his widow, Hester, who subsequently married Francis Turner.

His wife Hester was daughter of Isaac Bargrave, D.D., dean of Canterbury, by whom he was father of Beaupré Nower (or Nowers), afterwards fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

[Streatfield's Excerpta Cantiana; information from Mr. G. P. Nowers.]

L. C.

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.207
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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