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Reference: D/X 1314 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Bowlby family records

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Records given

2 May 2001 Acc: 2755(D)

22 October 2004 Acc: 3080(D)

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First Deposit (Ref: D/X 1314/1)

Pedigree of the Bowlby family of Helmsley, Yorkshire, 1552 - 1915, compiled by Charles Cotsford Bowlby and entered in the records of the College of Arms, January 1915 The branch descended from Richard Bowlby (1640 - 1709), mayor of Stockton-on-Tees, resided in the Durham City, Houghton-le-Spring and Bishopwearmouth areas in the 18th and 19th centuries. Thomas Bowlby (1762 - 1835), married into the Salvin family of Croxdale.
(1 paper, printed)

Second Deposit (Ref: D/X 1314/2-4)

Second Deposit

(Acc: 3080(D))
Thomas William Bowlby was the eldest son of Thomas Bowlby, R.A., by his wife, Williamina Martha, second daughter of Major-General William Balfour of 57 Regt., President of New Brunswick.

Thomas was born at Gibraltar in 1818, and was educated at The Grange School, Sunderland. He married Frances Marion, youngest daughter of Pultney Mein of Cannonbie, Dumfries, Scotland, 23 September 1848.

He was special correspondent to The Times , and was with the British expedition to China, where he was taken prisoner on 18 September 1860, and died in captivity a week later. He was buried in the Russian cemetery at Peking, China, 17 October 1860.


An account of the last mission and death of Thomas William Bowlby, 26 April - 16 September 1860 Includes: letters to The Times, from 'our special correspondent, 27 June 1860, 11 September 1860; extracts from Mr. H.B. Loch's narrative; n.d.; extracts from General Sir Hope Grant's correspondence, n.d.; articles and letters in The Times , 26 November 1860 - 28 December 1860; extracts from private letters to T.W. Bowlby, 6 July 1860 - 25 December 1860; 'Bowlby of The Times', by Tom Taylor, and an extract from The Sunderland Times concerning the late Thomas W. Bowlby, 1861
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


'T.W. Bowlby (1817 - 1860), and the burning of the Summer Palace, Peking', by Ronald Bowlby, December 2003
(5 papers, typescript)


Photocopy of an article from The Times , entitled: 'A Times man in war-torn China', by Ronald Bowlby, 18 June 2004
(1 paper)