George Bowers (priest)

The Very Rev George Hull Bowers, DD, was Dean of Manchester in the mid part of the 19th century.

Born in Staffordshire in 1794, he was educated at Clare College, Cambridge and ordained in 1819. He began his ecclesiastical career at Elstow after which he was Rector of St Paul's, Covent Garden followed by a 25-year spell in Manchester. He died on 27 December 1872.