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Men-at-the-Bar/Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Synge Christopher, Knt.

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Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Synge Christopher, Knt.
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Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Synge Christopher, Knt., D.C.L., a lord justice since May, 1882, member of Council of Legal Education, educated at Rugby, M.A. (late fellow) Balliol Coll., Oxon, Hertford scholar 1855, Ireland scholar 1857, Latin verse 1857, first class 1858, Arnold prize 1859, hon. D.C.L. Oxon 1883, junior truck commissioner 1870, recorder of Penzance 1871-9, common law counsel to Treasury 1871-9, justice of High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, 1879-82, a student of Lincoln's Inn 16 April, 1857 (then aged 22), called to the bar there 26 Jan., 1861, a member of the Middle Temple 18 Nov., 1873, bencher of Lincoln's Inn 30 June, 1879 (eldest son of Rev. Christopher Bowen, of Winchester, Hants); born , 1835; married 7 Jan., 1862, Emily Frances, dau. of late James Medows Rendel, Esq., F.R.S.

1, Cornwall Gardens, S.W.; Athenæum, University, and Devonshire Clubs.