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Walter Bowman (antiquary)

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Bowman had withdrawn from both societies several years before his death, in February 1782. In his will (proved 16 March of that year) he left whimsical directions regarding the arrangement and preservation of his library at Logie.
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To the Society of Antiquaries he contributed several papers, chiefly on classical antiquities, three of which were printed in vol. i. of
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A traveller and collector, he had some celebrity in his day as a virtuoso and man of science, which gained him admission in 1735 to the
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felt at East Molesey 14 March 1749–50, which appeared in the
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Bowman was a native of Scotland, and owned an estate at
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Index

Scottish
antiquary
Logie
Fifeshire
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
Port of Bristol
East Molesey
Surrey
Egham
Society of Antiquaries
Royal Society
Archæologia
Stephen Hales
earthquake
Philosophical Transactions




Goodwin 1886
public domain
Bowman, Walter
Stephen, Leslie
Dictionary of National Biography
Categories
1782 deaths
Scottish antiquarians
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellows of the Royal Society
People from Dundee

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