Thomas Edward Bowdich

(1791 c.-1824)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bowdich, T. Edward (Thomas Edward), 1791-1824 NRA: Bowdich Thomas Edward (1791-1824) African Traveller DNB: Bowdich, Thomas Edward (1791?–1824), writer and traveller in Africa LBT ID: ThBowdi1824 VIAF ID: 76435012 LOC ID: n79148142	B/BAP: 1791 DIED: 1824-01-10
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Born in Bristol, he was an African explorer who published A Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (1819); he died in Gambia.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Edward Bowdich: Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 19 May 1820 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1820 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIII 1825 Found 1: ¶ 26