Poet, and antiquary. The *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for his poem, published
on 5 May 1877, gives his address as Secretary’s Office, P. O. Dublin (NLS Dep 341/371),
where Bowker seems to have worked. He was elected to the Royal Historical and Archaeological
Association of Ireland in 1889. See *The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological
Association Of Ireland*, vol. 9, University Press, 1889, p. 257. (AC)