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Thomas Gibson Bowles was born in 1841 to Susannah Bowles, being baptised on 10th March 1841 at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London.[1] He was the illegitimate son of Thomas Milner Gibson. "One day in 1844 Gibson brought home a little surprise: a three-year-old boy called Thomas, whom he introduced to his wife as his natural son. Susanna Milner Gibson had been unaware of the child's existence. Nevertheless she accepted him straight away into her family (then only of two daughters) loved him as if he were her own child, and quickly adopted the habit of brushing away visitors' inquisitive questions with: 'This is Tom Bowles. Be civil to him or leave my house'."[2]
Thomas started out as a journalist and later became a Member of Parliament, who in 1863 founded the magazine Vanity Fair, and some years later the women's magazine The Lady.
Thomas was buried in Gibraltar.
Sources
- ↑ Baptism: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW8H-RYY
- ↑ Dalley, Jan, Diana Mosley: A Life, Faber & Faber, London, 1999, p.2. ISBN: 0-571-14448-9
- Marriage registration: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DPH-9ZW
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gibson_Bowles
- "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-TZT1 : 18 March 2018), Thomas Gibson Bowles, 1922.
- "England and Wales Census, 1851," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGGJ-26L : 28 July 2017), Thomas G Bowles, Saint Giles Camberwell, Surrey, England; citing Saint Giles Camberwell, Surrey, England, p. 20, from "1851 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
- "England and Wales Census, 1861," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M72P-X4N : 10 December 2017), Thomas G Bowles in household of Matilda De Lisle, St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, England; from "1861 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
- "England and Wales Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27S-BF9D : 10 December 2017), Thomas G Bowles, Kensington, London,Middlesex, England; from "1881 England, Scotland and Wales Census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing p. 1, Piece/Folio 22/72, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 101,774,318.
- "England and Wales Census, 1871", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRNY-C23 : 9 December 2017), Thomas G Bowles, 1871.
- "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4VW3-YN2 : 10 December 2017), Thos Gibson Bowles in household of Henry C E Malet, Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Wiltshire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
Acknowledgements
Profile created by Leslie Ridley, Sunday, April 6, 2014
