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	Bowring Park Foundation - Online - www.bowringpark.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the vessels Bowring acquired was the Florizel in 1909.
		In 1911, as part of the 100th anniversary of the Bowring enterprise, he presented the citizens of St. John’s with a gift of $50,000 which was used to purchase land to establish a park in the western part of the city, on the banks of the Waterford River.
		Bowring was honored for his contributions to Newfoundland and the British Empire, with not one, but two knighthoods, being made a Knight Bachelor in 1915, and then raised to a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1935.
	www.bowringpark.com /history.htm (884 words)

	Sir John Bowring
		Bowring, who had been the trusted friend of Bentham during his life, was appointed his literary executor, and was charged with the task of preparing a collected edition of his works.
		Meanwhile Bowring had entered parliament in 1835 as member for Kilmarnock; and in the following year he was appointed head of a government commission to be sent to France to inquire into the actual state of commerce between the two countries.
		Sir John Bowring subsequently accepted the appointment of minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary from the Hawaiian government to the courts of Europe, and in this capacity negotiated treaties with Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain.
	www.nndb.com /people/110/000102801 (714 words)

	Sir John Bowring
		Sir John Bowring (October 17, 1792-November 23, 1872), a man of amazing energy and a polymath, was a linguist, political economist, reformer, hymnist, writer and editor, Member of Parliament, and controversial Governor of Hong Kong.
		Bowring's correspondence with Lord Clarendon is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
		Bowring's published works are to be found in most of the major libraries in Britain that cover the 19th century.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/sirjohnbowring.html (1448 words)

	Johnny and the King(dom) of Siam -- ThingsAsian Article
		Bowring used more than arguments to pry open the Thai economy: the threat posed by the then-supreme British navy was almost certainly a factor in Siamese compliance, and Bowring himself confesses to mentioning his "large fleet" in correspondence with Siam's King Mongkut.
		Bowring says that the Siamese lack the "mendacity so characteristic of Orientals," and that in any case oppression is often to blame for lying: better to fib than to end up in the clinker.
		Bowring is similarly open-minded regarding slavery, the condition of fully one-third of the Siamese population.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.1881.html (1600 words)

	The loot of the cities, ch. 1: The fire of London (1905) by Arnold Bennett
		Bowring, in shirt-sleeves before a Florentine mirror, was brushing his hair with the solicitude of a mother who has failed to rear most of a large family.
		Bowring replied that he was, and that everything appeared to be in order for the meeting, and that he should be back on Monday afternoon or at the latest very early on Tuesday.
		Bruce Bowring haughtily ascended the grand staircase of this resort of opulence, and paused for an instant near the immense fireplace at the summit (September was inclement, and a fire burned nicely) to inquire from the head-waiter whether Mrs.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca /lootX1.htm (4138 words)

	history
		Bowring Park is perhaps the jewel of St. John's, certainly one of the city's most prominent attractions.
		THE LODGE Originally, the Bowring Park Lodge was constructed in 1913 to serve as a residence for Rudolph Cochius.
		Sir Edgar was never one to seek the spotlight, and though many of his contributions to the park are well known, records show countless unpublicized gifts.
	www.nfld.com /nfld/tourism/bowring/history.htm (9292 words)

	Richard S. Horowitz \| International Law and State Transformation in China, Siam, and the Ottoman Empire during the ...
		In 1847 Bowring was appointed British Consul in Canton, and in 1854 he became the governor of Hong Kong.
		Sir Edmund Hornby, who had reformed the British consular courts in the Ottoman Empire and was sent to do the same in China, was remarkably unimpressed by the Zongli Yamen, the new Qing foreign office organized following Qing patterns for a central government ministry.
		In Siam, the opening of trade was the central goal of Sir John Bowring's mission: he forced a limitation of import duties to 3 percent and export duties to 5 percent, and the abolition of commodity and trading monopolies with the exception of opium.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/15.4/horowitz.html (14657 words)

	Karl Marx in New York Daily Tribune
		"Sir J. Bowring, who is a distinguished humanitarian as well as plenipotentiary (laughter), himself admits the register is void, and that the lorcha was not entitled to hoist the English flag.
		It is quite clear from the papers laid on the table yesterday that from the first moment at which Sir J. Bowring was appointed to the station he now fills, his ambition was to procure what his predecessors had completely failed to effect — namely an entry within the walls of Canton...
		Sir J. Bowring met with similar treatment at the hands of the Commons, and Mr.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1857/03/16.htm (1457 words)

	The Royal St. John's Regatta Hall of Fame - 1990
		E.R. Bowring to take the property over, pay the Bank of Montreal the full amount paid for it and it is his intention to lay the ground out and convert the property into a park for the people of St. John's.
		Bowring is anxious, before taking over the property, to have an understanding with the Club, and he suggests the boat-house might be removed from its present position to the head of the Bake and for that purpose he is prepared to build another boat-house for your Club at his own expense.
		While it cannot be documented, it is claimed that Sir Edgar donated the land to the City for $1.00, in trust, to be forever used as a park for the citizens of St. John's.
	www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca /providers/Regatta/hof1990serb.html (1139 words)

	China Text: Chapter XIX - The Second Foreign War
		Sir George Bonham, who succeeded Sir John Davis, gave counsels of moderation, and when he found that some practical propositions which he made for improved intercourse were rejected he became more convinced that the question must wait for solution for a more convenient and promising occasion.
		Up to this point all Sir John Bowring's suggestions with regard to the settlement of the questions pending with the Chinese had been received with the official reply that he was to abstain from all action, and that he was not to press himself on the Canton authorities.
		Sir John Bowring therefore returned to Hongkong without having effected anything by his visit to Shanghai, but at this moment the advance of the rebels to the neighborhood of Canton seemed likely to effect a diversion that might have important consequences.
	www.enotes.com /china-text/72521 (16060 words)

	simply-thai.com-King Nangklao Rama III and King Mongkut Rama IV
		Sir James Brooke the White Rajah of Borneo (Sarawak) was furious at this slight.
		Sir James subsequently wrote to a colleague "Siam is, however, a country well worthy of attention and, in commercial point of view, second only to China, but the Government is as arrogant as that of China, and the King, in comparison, is inimical to Europeans.
		As Sir John reported, Royal Barges conveyed the entourage to the landing place and, when summoned to the Audience Hall, "the Plenipotentiary and all officers proceeded there on foot without laying aside any portion of their dress".
	www.simply-thai.com /Thailand_History_Rama_III_RamaIV_Bangkok_20.htm (995 words)

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		Sir Hannibal obeyed her, although he saved his dignity by pretending that such obedience was but fatherly kindness, which could refuse nothing to his household fairy.
		Bowring was a rough man, as she had said, for she had met him once or twice, and having lived in lawless lands he was not likely to be bound by social rules.
		Sir Hannibal looked at her uneasily, and after clearing his throat and considering for a moment or so, he gave a perfectly unnecessary explanation: 'Bowring and myself were not very good friends,' he said slowly, 'as he treated me very badly in Africa.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200401.txt (23523 words)

	Bowring Park - St. John's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The famous statue of Peter Pan is a memorial to Sir Edgar Bowring's godchild, Betty Munn.
		Under the tree sits the Connaught Stone, originally used by Sir Richard Squires (Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919-1923 and again from 1929-1932) as a gravestone for his two dogs.
		The trough in Bowring Park is surrounded by cobblestones from Water Street and now serves a drinking fountain for visitors.
	wordplay.com /tourism/parks/bowringpark.html (528 words)

	AIM25: University College London: Bowring Albums
		Administrative/Biographical history: John Bowring was born in Exeter on 17 October 1792 and educated in Moretonhampstead.
		Bowring was friend and adviser to Jeremy Bentham, who in 1824 founded the Westminster Review, a publication for philosophical radicals.
		Bowring was one of its first editors and wrote many of the political articles and some of the literary ones.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/13/1653.htm (334 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bowring, Sir John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BOWRING, SIR JOHN [Bowring, Sir John], 1792-1872, British diplomat, linguist, and writer.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Bowring, Sir John" at HighBeam.
		Sir Walter Scott on Oliver Cromwell: an evenhanded Royalist evaluates a usurper.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bowring.asp (314 words)

	Fighting Newf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A LARGE gathering of citizens was present at Bowring Park on Wednesday, Sept. 13th, when the statue of "The Fighting Newfoundlander," the work of the famous sculptor Captain Basil Gotto, and a gift to the city from the Hon.
		Sir Edgar R. Bowring, was unveiled and presented, with fitting ceremony.
		Captain A. Baird, President of the G.W.V.A., speaking on behalf of that Association and Veterans in general, expressed the thanks of the ex-Service men to Sir Edgar Bowring for his splendid remembrance, and said the G.W.V.A. were well pleased to be present at such a function.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /legion/fightnf.htm (852 words)

	Captain's Quarters Hotel
		Pinsent later sold a portion to Bowring in 1887 and it remained in his family until 1916, when Sir Edgar Bowring sold it to Harry Duff Reid, son of railway builder, Robert G. Reid.
		Robert Thorburn, who became prime minister of Newfoundland in 1885, notes that Sir Ambrose Shea, a Father of Confederation, was renting the property.
		In 1916 when Sir Edgar Bowring sold the southern portion of the property to Reid, he also signed over the northern portion for $1.00 to John Shannon Munn.
	www.captainsquarters.ca /history.html (420 words)

	Details of the Imprisonment and Liberation of an Englishman by the Bourbon Government of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In 1828, Bowring was made a commissioner for reforming public accounts; the appointment was then cancelled because of Bowring's radical political views.
		Bowring also wrote a number of poems and hymns, and wrote an unfinished work on popular poetry in European and Oriental languages.
		His eldest son, J.C.Bowring was a well-known coleopterist; Lewin Bowring served as private secretary during the Indian Mutiny, 1857; Edgar Bowring was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, MP for Exeter, 1868-1874 and a translator of literature, and Frederick Bowring was a Cambridge don and lawyer.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/archivehub/bowhub.sgm (970 words)

	Collection Offers Glimpses of St. John's Society: Memorial University's Archival Treasures
		It was commissioned for the park by Sir Edgar Bowring "In memory of a little girl who loved the Park" and unveiled on Aug. 29, 1925.
		John Shannon Munn, one of the directors of Bowring Bros., Limited, of St. John's, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony.
		The newspaper goes on to relate that in honor of the wedding, Bowring Brothers held a soiree for their employees and guests later that night at Donovans.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /cns_archives/22riggsoct17_1996.html (958 words)

	Specimens of the Russian Poets: Translated by John Bowring. With Preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices. - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Specimens of the Russian Poets: Translated by John Bowring.
		Bowring (1792-1872) acquired his considerable linguistic skills while employed in various commercial endeavors which took him across Europe.
		He published the Specimens, the first anthologies of Russian literature in English, following a business trip to Russia in 1819-20 and a term of solitary confinement spent in a French prison during 1822, purportedly for crimes against the Bourbon government.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/rul/3182.shtml (220 words)

	Governor of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first governor, Sir Henry Pottinger resided in the Former French Mission Building from 1843 to 1846.
		The building is now housing the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
		From the 4th governor (Sir John Bowring) until the last one (Chris Patten), governors resided at the Government House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Governor_of_Hong_Kong (463 words)

	Bowring's Journal
		Bowring were sent for, and seated in chairs opposite the King.
		It is mainly due to the Phra Kalahom's energetic influence: he has a great work to accomplish, and he is working while it is day--ay, and by night as well.
		The Portuguese whom we supposed to be a general, and whom we saw at Paknam in a court-dress given him by Sir James Brooke, tells me his functions are to superintend all the foreign Catholic Christians in Bangkok.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/hist244/Bowring.html (20641 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir John Bowring (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Sir John Bowring (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir John Bowring, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Sir John Bowring[bou´ring] Pronunciation Key, 1792–1872, British diplomat, linguist, and writer.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bowring.html (289 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Bowring Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Personal and political correspondence of Sir John Bowring (1792-1872) and his family.
		There are letters from Sir John Bowring to his son Edgar Alfred Bowring at the Board of Trade, mainly concerning political and commercial affairs in the Far East at the time when Sir John was Consul at Canton, Plenipotentiary to China and, from 1854, Governor of Hong Kong and Chief Superintendent of Trade.
		Earlier letters and papers date from Sir John's term as MP for Bolton and his activities in the Anti-Corn Law League.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/bowring (154 words)

	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		She is the daughter of Sir Harry Charles Malet, 7th Bt.
		She married Alan Douglas Stoddart, son of Lawrence Bowring Stoddart, on 6 September 1934.
		She is the daughter of Colonel Sir Edward William St. Lo Malet, 8th Bt.
	www.thepeerage.com /p7652.htm (307 words)

	Memorial's Archival Treasures
		A statue of Peter Pan stands in Bowring Park, in the west end of St. John's.
		Betty and her father were lost in the wreck of the Florizel, a Bowring Brothers ship which was destroyed on the rocks off Cappahayden during a winter's storm on the night of Feb. 23-24, 1918.
		Bert Riggs is the archivist for the Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives, located on level one of the Queen Elizabeth II Library.
	www.mun.ca /marcomm/gazette/1995-96/Oct.17/m-mat.html (861 words)

	ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 3 March 2002 - The Free Trade Crusade
		And it's not often that we start the show with a hymn, but today on Background Briefing we've got religion, the religion of free trade.
		The author of this particular hymn was Sir John Bowring; he was a 19th century British industrialist, social reformer, and a devout Christian.
		Bowring is chiefly remembered today not for his hymns, but for his passionate devotion to free trade.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s496229.htm (5271 words)

	GENUKI: Wills of Derbyshire - Surnames beginning B
		BOWRING, George - of Rowesley, pish of Bakewell, husbandman, 1 Jul 1647 [23 Chas I] 'My Bodey to bee buried in Bakewell Churchyard'; wife Mary BOWERING, eldest son John BOWRING, younger sons Roger BOWRING* and George BOWRING; (other) sons Richard, Thomas, Nicholas and William BOWRINGE; daughter Elizabeth; Mr (?Richard) CLARK, Minister of Beyley.
		BOWRING, John, the Elder of Pilsley, in Edensor, Husbandman, 20 Nov 1764.
		Proved by the oaths of son William BOWRING of 255 Broad Street aforesaid, Butcher and Charles EARLE of 307 Broad Street Licensed Victualler.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/DBY/ProbateRecords/WillsB.html (10273 words)

	Sir John Bowring
		Sir John Bowring Homepage Who's Who King Mongkut Sir John Bowring In April 1855 a mission headed by Sir John Bowring was sent by the British Government to negotiate for a revision of the treaty made during the previous reign.
		No better choice of the head of mission could have been made, for Sir John was a personal friend...
		Sir John Bowring - Sir John Bowring Homepage Who's Who King Mongkut Sir John Bowring In April 1855 a mission headed by Sir John Bowring was sent by the British Government to negotiate for
	www.thaipro.com /z1048a/354_thailand.html (260 words)

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