John Bowring
1792–1872
Politician, diplomatist, and writer. Published poetry translated from the German and many oriental languages. Governor of Hong Kong, 1854. Knighted, 1854. FRS 1856.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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