Frederic Hungerford Bowman FGS, FCS, DSc.
was born in Huddersfield, the son of James Bowman.
He was Partner in Bowman Brothers cotton-spinning business / a master cotton spinner employing 70 men, 5 women, 53 young persons male, 53 young persons female, 25 boys, 16 girls (total 269) [1871] / 2nd President of the Society of Dyers & Colourists [1886].
He wrote standard works on the structures of cotton and wool fibre.
In the 1880s, he was Adjudicator on Wool for the Colonial & Indian Exhibition in London.
He must have been made bankrupt in 1902; the first & final payment for his bankruptcy was made in 1906
On 10th April 1866, he married (1) Sarah Hodgson at St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd.
Sarah was the daughter of John Hodgson
Children:
Sarah died Q3 1870.
In [Q1] 1872, he married (2) Clara Hurst Eastwood [1844-1894] in Huddersfield
Clara was born in Huddersfield
Children:
Clara died in Altrincham [Q3 1894] (aged 50).
On 14th November 1917, he married (3) Caroline Holland [1878-19??] in Buxton, Derbyshire.
Frederic Hungerford Bowman, widower of 181 Stamford Street, Manchester, married Caroline Holland, spinster of St Ann's Hotel, Buxton, the daughter of John Holland, gentleman farmer
They lived at
Living with the widowed Frederic [in 1871] was his sister Jane [b 1844], and visitor Frederick Wagstaff [b 1838] (Congregational minister).
The children ‡ were buried at Lister Lane Cemetery [Plot 2044]
This & associated entries use material contributed by Derrick Habergham
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