James Bowstead, bishop of Lichfield

(1801-1843)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Bowstead, James (1801-1843) Bishop of Lichfield LBT ID: JaBowst1843	B/BAP: 1801-05-01 DIED: 1843-10-11
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (December 1843) 649-50
Educated at Bampton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Fellow, 1824-38); he was bishop of Lichfield in succession to Samuel Butler, 1838-40.
REFERENCES TO James Bowstead, bishop of Lichfield: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 59 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXI. 1837-40. Found 2: ¶ 27 ¶