George Bowers (priest)
George Hull Bowers was an Anglican priest who was Dean of Manchester from 1847 to 1871, and founder of Marlborough College in Wiltshire.
Born in Staffordshire, he was educated at Clare [College, Cambridge], and ordained in 1819. He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow in Bedfordshire, after which he was Rector of St [Paul's, Covent Garden], followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester.