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DEVONSHIRE

DING 2015: "Politician and miscellaneous writer born in Exeter. He atended school in Moretonhamstead, Dev. He claimed he could speak over 100 languages. He translated folk songs and ballads of Eastern Europe and Spain. He was also a poet and wrote on economic and political topics.  He was the 4th Governor of Hong Kong. He was involved in the founding of the Devonshire Association.”

WORKS

1866. "Language, With Special Reference to the Devonian Dialects". Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art  V: 13-38. SC. EDD.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Sir, John BOWRING (M: 1792 Oct 17 - 1872 Nov 23)

          Autobiographical Recollections [a|1877]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Anonymous. “Sir John Bowring (1792-1872)” [http://www. historyhome.co.uk/people/bowring.htm, accessed 23 May 2015]

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_people/bowring.php

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6679420

Murray Laver, 1993.“Sir John Bowring and the Devon Dialects”. Joyce A. Youings. ed. Sir John Bowring 1792-1872: Aspects of his Life and Career. Plymouth: Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Sicence, Literature and Art: 87-102.

Stone. Gerald. 2009. “Bowring, Sir John (1792–1872)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3087, accessed 23 May 2015]

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Sir John Bowring

(1792-1872)