John Bowers [Bodsy]

(1750-1820)

LBT ID: JoBower1800	B/BAP: 1750 DIED: 1820-11-08
SOURCES: Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, Family Record of the Name of Dingwall Fordyce in Aberdeenshire (1885) 29
John Bowers (or Bower) was Byron's first Aberdeen schoolmaster; a genealogy list reports that he married an Ann Touch in 1784.
REFERENCES TO John Bowers [Bodsy]: Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 23 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 2: ¶ 23 ¶ 24 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 14 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 28