James Bowyer

(1736-1814)

LBT ID: JaBowye1814	B/BAP: 1736 DIED: 1814-07-28
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (August 1814) 194; Alumni Oxonienses; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983)
Educated at Christ's Hospital and Balliol College, Oxford, he was upper-master at Christ's Hospital where he was governor after his retirement in 1799; among his pupils were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb.
REFERENCES TO James Bowyer: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [26 August 1814] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Observations on Coleridge's Biographia Literaria” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 3-18 Found 2: ¶ 29 ¶ 30 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 4—Mr. Coleridge” in The Examiner (21 October 1821) 664-67 Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) An Account of Christ’s Hospital. Found 6: ¶ 57 ¶ 58 ¶ 59 ¶ 60 ¶ 70 ¶ 76 Charles Lamb to George Dyer, 22 February 1831 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1814 Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 11 Letters: 1827 Found 1: ¶ 6 Letters: 1831 Found 1: ¶ 7