A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bowes, Sir Jerome
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BOWES, Sir JEROME.
Ambassador.
d. 1616.
Admitted 12 August, 1606.
His parentage is not given in the Register, but he belonged to a Durham family of repute. He served in the expedition to avenge the fall of Calais in 1558, but was subsequently expelled from Court for "slanderous speech" against the Earl of Leicester. In his retirement he found time to translate from the French an Apologie for the Christians of France. He was restored to favour in 1583, and sent as Ambassador to Russia, where he distinguished himself by the assertion of his sovereign's dignity. Some account of his embassy appears in Hakluyt's Voyages. He was buried in Hackney Church, 28 March, 1616.