Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen

Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen, PC, FRS (1 January 1835 – 10 April 1894) was an English judge.

He was born at Woolaston in Gloucestershire, his father, the Rev. Christopher Bowen, originally of Hollymount, County Mayo, being then curate of the parish; his younger brother was Edward Ernest Bowen, later a well-known Harrow schoolmaster. He was educated at Lille in France, Blackheath and Rugby schools, leaving the latter in 1853 with a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. There, he made good the promise of his earlier youth, winning the principal classical scholarships and prizes of his time. He was elected a Fellow of Balliol in 1857, while still and undergraduate, and was the President of the Oxford Union in 1858.

From Oxford, Bowen went to London, where he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1861, and while studying law he wrote regularly for the Saturday Review, and also later for The Spectator. In 1861, he also played a single first-class match for Hampshire against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In Hampshire's first innings he was dismissed for a duck by Caleb Robinson and in their second innings he scored 30*. His brother, Edward Ernest Bowen also played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club.

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