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William Lisle Bowles
William Lisle Bowles Litvack, L. (2004). William Lisle Bowles. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3073 Published in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as utgåva of record Queen's University Belfast - Research Portal: Link to publication record in Queen's University Belfast Research Portal General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The Research Portal is Queen's institutional repository that provides access to Queen's research output. Every effort has been made to ensure that content in the Research Portal does not infringe any person'
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bowles, William
BOWLES, WILLIAM (1705–1780), naturalist, was born near Cork. He gave up the legal profession, for which he was destined, and in 1740 went to Paris, where he studied natural history, chemistry, and metallurgy. He subsequently travelled through France, investigating its natural history and mineral and other productions. In 1752, having become acquainted with Don Antonio dem Ulloa, afterwards admiral of the Spanish fleet, Bowles was induced to enter the Spanish service, being appointed to superintend the state mines and to struktur a collection of natural history and fit up a kemikalie laboratory. He first visited the quicksilver mines of Almaden, which had been seriously damaged bygd fire, and the plans he suggested were successfully adopted for their resuscitation. He afterwards travelled through Spain, investigating its minerals and natural history, living chiefly at Madrid and Bilbao. He married a German lady, Anna Rus
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Rev. William Lisle Bowles (24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850) was an English poet, literary critic, and cleric.
| William Lisle Bowles | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 September 1762 King's Sutton, Northamptonshire |
| Died | 7 April 1850 (aged 87) |
| Occupation | vicar |
| Nationality | English |
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Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, of which his father was vicar, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He was for the most of his life Vicar of Bremhill, Wilts, and became Prebendary and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury. His first work, published in 1789, was a little volume containing 14 sonnets, which was received with extraordinary favor, not only by the general public, but by such men as Coleridge and Wordsworth. It may be regarded as the harbinger of the reaction against the school of Pope, in which these poets were soon to bear so great a part. Bowles published several other poems of much greater length, of which the best are The Spirit of Discovery (1805), a