George Bowlby, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Bowlby

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1865

Date of Death: 10-Nov-1916

Profession: politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George Bowlby

  • Doctor George Herbert Bowlby (July 16, 1865 – November 10, 1916) was a physician and politician in Ontario, Canada.
  • He served as mayor of Berlin in 1901.
  • Bowlby was the first person born in Berlin to become its mayor.The son of David Sovereign Bowlby and Martha Esther Murphy, he was born in Berlin (later Kitchener).
  • He was educated there, at St.
  • Jerome's College and at Toronto University, where he earned a degree in medicine Bowlby subsequently became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London and was also licensed to practice by the Royal College of Physicians.In 1894, he married Blanche Alexandrine "Adine" Seagram, daughter of Joseph Emm Seagram.During World War I, he served in the Army Medical Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, later becoming assistant director of Medical Services with the rank of Captain.
  • Bowlby died in England in November 1916, aged 51, after falling off a cliff near a military hospital in Bath, Somerset, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London.
  • His widow died from injuries sustained in a car crash two years later.His uncle Ward Hamilton Bowlby had served as reeve of Berlin.
  • His nephew William Pope Clement later served as mayor of Kitchener.

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