Benjamin Morgan Cowie
1816–1900
Clergyman and educationalist. BA (senior wrangler), Cambridge (St John’s College), 1839; fellow of St John’s College, 1839–43. Ordained priest, 1842. Curate, St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 1843. Principal and senior mathematical lecturer, College for Civil Engineers, Putney, 1844–51. Government inspector of schools, 1857–72. Dean of Manchester, 1872–83. Involved in educational causes in Manchester as governor of Manchester grammar school, member of council of Owens College, and supporter of the founding of Manchester High School for Girls.
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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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