Edward Ernest Bowen

Edward Ernest Bowen (born March 30, 1836 in Glenmore , Ireland ; † April 8, 1901 in Moux-en-Morvan , France ) was a directional teacher and headmaster of the renowned English Harrow School and wrote their famous school song "Forty Years On" .

Edward Bowen attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge . After an assistantship at the Marlborough School , he joined the Harrow School in 1859 as a teacher, where he was active until his death - from 1869 to 1893 as its director. He believed that students should follow class with interest and have good relationships with their teachers. This contradicted the strict and formal school practice prevalent in the Victorian era. At the same time, he endeavored to expand the traditional old language orientation and thus established the "modern side" of the boarding school in Harrow on the Hill .

Edward Bowen is known for his contributions to military and theological topics. Besides the school songs for Harrow, he wrote a whole collection of other verses. He was an enthusiastic cricket and soccer player , skater and mountaineer . In 1864 he played his only first-class cricket match for Hampshire. Bowen was politically liberal . After his death, he bequeathed his property to the Harrow School.

As a member of Wanderers FC , Bowen won the first two editions of the FA Cup in 1872 and 1873 .

literature

• Dictionary of National Biography on the multimedia CD Infopedia UK, Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Ernest Bowen in the WorldCat bibliographic database