Bowring Albums c1790-c1900
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Sir John Bowring, 1792-1872
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John Bowring was born in Exeter on 17 October 1792, and was educated in Moretonhampstead. After leaving school, he entered a Merchant's house at Exeter where he started to learn languages through the different nationalities of the people he met there. He showed a great aptitude for languages and learned a great many in his lifetime. In 1811 he became a clerk in London at Milford and Co. Later he started his own business and in 1819 travelled abroad for commercial purposes. Bowring was friend and...
Bentham, Jerémy 1748-1832
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Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and reformer. From the description of Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1828 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76698683 From the guide to the Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items, 1784-ca. 1828, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Jurist and philosopher. From the description of Jeremy Bentham memoranda, 1830. (Unknown). Wo...
Bowring, John, 1792-1872
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John Bowring was an English statesman and author, renowned as a polyglot. Born in Exeter and raised as a Unitarian, he began working at the age of thirteen, and actively sought to learn languages from travellers. He established a mercantile firm, and travelled extensively, meeting Jeremy Bentham; a controversy over some Greek loans affected his reputation and financial status, but Bentham helped by appointing him political editor of Westminster Review. Bowring published several volumes of verse,...
