Born on 27 January 1866 at Milverton Court, near Taunton, Somerset, only son of Charles Edward Fowler, a landowner, and Margaret Goldsmith, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at the Bristol Medical School and St Mary's Hospital, London. Fowler was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant on 29 July 1893, promoted surgeon-captain and captain, RAMC on 29 July 1896, and major on 30 January 1905. He was assistant professor of military hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College from 1903 to 1907, then medical officer of health at Gibraltar from 1907 to 1912. While holding this appointment he accompanied Sir Reginald Lister, the British Minister in Morocco, on a mission to the Sultan at Fez in 1909. After leaving Gibraltar he worked for a time with Sir Ronald Ross on the Malaria Commission in Mauritius, and at one time during the four years' war was engaged on malaria control in India. He was appointed instructor at the Army School of Sanitation on 17 February 1913, and retired on half-pay on 4 February 1914. He rejoined for active service on the outbreak of war in August 1914, was gazetted brevet lieutenant-colonel on 3 June 1917 and lieutenant-colonel on 26 December in the same year, and colonel, AMS on 21 March 1918. He was appointed a staff sanitary officer on 27 July 1915, and Assistant Director of Medical Services on 20 January 1919. He served as DADMS in the Aldershot Command from 1914 to September 1916, and as ADMS Sanitation with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force as well as in India. He was mentioned in despatches several times and was decorated OBE in 1917. Fowler married on 2 October 1894 Mary Dorothy Hopper Boulton who survived him with one son, Major A G H Fowler, MC, Coldstream Guards, and one daughter, who married Lt-Col R B Colvin, Grenadier Guards. He died after a long illness at Garth End, Wickham Bishops, Essex on 21 January 1941. Mrs Fowler died on 8 May 1942. Fowler had been a keen sportsman, and enjoyed tiger shooting when in India. Publications:- Outbreak of food poisoning after a Christmas dinner. *J Roy Army med Corps*, 1909, 13, 271. Mediterranean fever in Gibraltar in 1909. *Ibid*. 1910, 15, 54. Malarial fever in Gibraltar. *Ibid*. 1911, 16, 625. A short note on blood culture. *Ibid*. 1912, 18, 574.