A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher
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BOWEN, CHARLES SYNGE CHRISTOPHER, first BARON BOWEN of COLWOOD.
Judge.
1835—1894.
Admitted 18 November, 1873.
Eldest son of the Rev. Christopher Bowen, of Winchester. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He began his law studies at Lincoln's Inn, where he was admitted 16 April, 1857, and called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1861. He was a Justice of the Queen's Bench Division from 1879 to 1883, when he became a Judge of Appeal. In 1893 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving at the same time a Life Peerage. He died 10 April, 1894.