George Bowers (priest)
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George Hull Bowers (bapt. 30 March 1794 – 27 December 1872) was an Anglican priest who was Dean of Manchester from 1847 to 1871, and founder of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.[1][2]
Born in Staffordshire,[3] he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1819.[4] He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow in Bedfordshire, after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden,[5] followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.[6]