John Bowers (bishop)

John Phillips Allcot Bowers (15 May 1854 – 6 January 1926) was Bishop of Thetford in the Church of England in 1903–1926.^[1]

Bowers in 1916

Memorial in King's Lynn Minster

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John Bowers was born in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, and educated at Magdalen School and St John's College, Cambridge.^[2] His first post after ordination was as a Curate at Coggeshall.^[3] From 1882 to 1903 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester and went on to be Diocesan Missioner and a Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral (1890–1902).^[4] In January 1902, he was appointed Archdeacon of Gloucester^[5][6] before his appointment as Bishop of Thetford and Archdeacon of Lynn in 1903 which refers to Kings Lynn.

A prominent Freemason,^[7] he died in Norwich.