Charles S. C. Bowen

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, PC, FRS, born at Woolaston in Gloucestershire, was an English judge. Bowen was educated at Lille in France, Blackheath and Rugby schools, leaving the latter in 1853 having won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Balliol in 1857 while an undergraduate and became President of the Oxford Union in 1857. He began his law studies at Lincoln's Inn, where he was admitted in April 1857, and called to the Bar in January 1861. He was a Justice of the Queen's Bench Division from 1879-83, when he became a Judge of Appeal. He was knighted in June 1879. In 1893 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving at the same time a Life Peerage with the title Baron Bowen, of Colwood in the County of Sussex. Of Lord Bowen's literary works may be mentioned his translation of Virgil's Eclogues and Æneid, Books I.-VI.

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