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In VENN as BOWSTEAD
Adm. sizar at JESUS, Sept. 27, 1779. Of Cumberland. [S. and h. of Thomas, of Gt Salkeld, and Miss Rebanks, dau. of Capt. Rebanks, of Salkeld Dykes.] B. Dec. 24, 1754, at Gt Salkeld. Migrated to Peterhouse, Mar. 2, 1786; matric. Easter, 1791; B.D. (Stat. Eliz.) 1791. Minister of Mardale Chapelry, Westmorland, 1813-30. R. of Gt Musgrave, Westmorland, 1832-41. Preb. of Lichfield, 1841. Master of Bampton Grammar School, Westmorland, for 54 years. Married Peggy, dau. of Christopher Mounsey, yeoman, of Eastwardy. Died Nov. 1, 1841, aged 87. M.I. at Bampton. Father of Thomas S. (1807). (T. A. Walker, 353; G. Mag., 1842, I. 447.)
MI at Bampton: Reverend John Bowstead B.D. and H.M.N.A.S., Fifty-six years Master of Bampton Grammar School, Forty years Min. of Mardale Chapel, Ten years Rector of Musgrave, all in Westmorland, And finally a Prebendary of Lichfield conferred upon him by his favourite Nephew and grateful pupil, the Right Revd. James Bowstead DD. Lord Bishop of Lichfield. He was the eldest son of Thomas and Grace Bowstead, B. at Great Salkeld near Penrith Cumb. Dec. 24th 1754 and died at Great Musgrave Nov. lst 1841. Peggy his beloved wife, who was the youngest Daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth Mounsey of Eastward, (and Cousin to George Mounsey Esq. MA, formerly Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and one of Dean Milner's close competitors), was born at Eastward aforesaid June 24th 1755 and died July 8th 1831. Elizabeth Bowstead, Spinster, their eldest Daughter, was born May 13th 1780 and died Nov. 30th 1841. Christopher Bowstead Esqre. of Messand Beck Hall, Haweswater, was born April 26th 1783 and died in May 1843. Hannah his pious Wife, who was the eldest Daughter of George and Mary Binson of Scotch Street Carlisle, and mother of an only Son (the Revd. John Bowstead M.A. Vicar of Messingham and Prebendary of Lincoln) died in 1847 aged 66. Mary Bowstead, Spinster, their fourth Daughter was born March 22nd 1789, and died June 18th 1844. Ann wife of Thomas Mounsey of Roughill, Yeoman, their third daughter, was born in Nov. 1784 and died in October 1845. Margaret their seventh and Youngest Daughter, (and Widowed Mother of Robert Docker, Scholar of Queen's College Oxford), was born April l0th 1798 and died in October 1849. Three other of their children were buried elsewhere; And three survive to lament their family loss. Pace quiescant; Gloria resurgant. This Tablet was erected
by a dutiful Son and affectionate Brother The Revd. Thomas Stanley Bowstead M.A. Vicar of Tarvin and Prebendary of Lichfield A.D. March 18th 1851.