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Robert Bowes was born on August 22, 1835, in Scotland.

He was a bookseller and publisher. In 1846, he joined his uncle Daniel Macmillan’s successful Cambridge bookshop Macmillan & Co. as an apprentice. Later he became a full partner, and the bookshop became known as Macmillan & Bowes. His son George Brimley Bowes became a partner in 1899 and the business was renamed Bowes & Bowes in 1907. The firm continued as a family business until 1953 when it was acquired by W. H. Smith, who continued to operate it under the original name until 1986. In 1992, the famous old site became the home of the Cambridge University Press bookshop.

Bowes was prominent in Cambridge life from his early years, working with Alexander Macmillan and members of the university to found the Cambridge Working Men’s College in the 1850s. Later he joined Frederick Denison Maurice and Henry Sidgwick to promote the higher education of women – Newnham College was founded in 1875 as a result. He served as a town councillor, a governor of the Perse School and of the Old Schools, and as chairman of the Free Library Committee. In 1914, Bowes became president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association. In 1918, Cambridge University conferred on him an honorary degree of Master of Arts.

In 1868, he married Frances (Fanny) Brimley. He died on February 9, 1919, in Cambridge, England.

Robert Arthur Bowie was a physician born in Brockville, Ontario. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University in 1891. His institutional affiliations included: McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, 1891, (G), ENGL-15 Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1892, (G), and ENGL-11 Registrable Qualification Granted By English Conjoint Board, LRCP, 1892, (G).

He maintained an office on King Street in Brockville. On April 27, 1917, he arrived in France. He died after falling into an elevator shaft in 1920.

Walter Robert Bown (1828-1903) was a dentist, businessman, journalist, publisher, politician, and office holder. It was Bown’s involvement with John Christian Schultz (1840-1896), dating from 1864, that propelled the diminutive dentist and trader to the forefront of affairs in Red River. Schultz, a highly controversial figure, introduced Bown to various business endeavours and, most important, to the politics of Canadian expansionism in the northwest and to anti-Hudson’s Bay Company rhetoric. Acting as the editor of the Nor’Wester in Schultz’s absence, Bown portrayed the Schultz’s jailbreak as an action which had the support of the majority of Red River’s inhabitants, and which constituted a blow for freedom against the tyranny of HBC rule in general and its system of justice in particular. That this view was shared by only a handful of recent Canadian immigrants was soon demonstrated by a petition from 804 residents questioning the veracity of Bown’s assertions.

William Bowson was a resident of Hinchinbrooke, Quebec in 1825. A document entitled "Instructions to the agents of townships" (1826) in the collection of the University of Alberta lists Bowson as the Agent for superintending the settlement of the townships of Godmanchester, Hemmingford, and Hinchinbrook.