Born at Stockport, Cheshire, on February 17th, 1818, the son of George and Sarah Bowring. He came of the family of Bowrings of Edensor, Derbyshire, which dates back to 1600. He was educated at the Bradford Grammar School and received his professional training at King’s College Hospital. He settled a

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised successively in East London - at 266 High Street, Poplar, as Surgeon to the Poplar Hospital; at Camborough House, East India Road, where he was in addition Surgeon to the Poplar Union; at 1 Coborn Terrace, Bow, where he was Surgeon to the Bow Distr