Born 27 March 1890, the elder of the two sons of Reginald Treacher Bowden, MRCS 1884, MD Durham 1887, and his wife, *née* Campbell. He was educated at Rochester Grammar School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1913, and served as pathological assistant and house surgeon; he was also house surgeon in the ear, nose, and throat department at the London and was resident surgical officer at the Temperance Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, and won the Military Cross. He then settled in practice at Bournemouth, and ultimately became consulting surgeon to the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital. He was surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Swanage; the Victoria Cottage Hospitals at Blandford and Wimborne; and the Milford-on-Sea Hospital. He practised at 7 Browning Avenue, Boscombe, and retired to Trevose, Riverside Road, West Moors, Wimborne, where he died suddenly on 20 July 1951, survived by his wife, Kathleen Tarrant, whom he had married in 1926. He was a past president and honorary librarian of the Bournemouth Medical Society. He left the remainder of his fortune to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Publications:- Nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic. *Practitioner*, 1916, 97, 441. Functions of the spleen in relation to splenectomy. *Practitioner*, 1929, 123, 120. Unusual case of umbilical hernia in an infant. *Brit J Surg*. 1927, 15, 337.