Herbert Townsend Bowen

Colonial judge, dying in London in 1889: he was acting as court-appointed representative of the deceased mortgagee in the award for which he appears as receiving compensation, and does not appear to have been a slave-owner himself. He gave evidence at the 1832 Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery.

1. Will of Herbert Townsend Bowen late Puisne Judge of the Island of Trinidad died at 11 Carlton Road Maida Vale 30/09/1889 [aged 83], probate 30/11/1889 to his son Arthur John Bowen solicitor, effects £417 3s 10d. His life-dates are tentative: Herbert Townsend Bowen was baptised at St Mary Rotherhithe 28/11/1805, which is consistent with an age of 83 given at death, but a Herbert Robert Townshend Bowen was also baptised at the same church with the same parents 04/03/1812.

T71/894 Trinidad claim no. 1470A&B.

1. National Probate Calendar; aged at death from FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online] which shows his death aged 83 registered Q3 1889 at Paddington; Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online].