John Bowen

1785 – 29 March 1854

John Bowen, born in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, was a social reformer and author of *An Improved and Enlarged Edition of Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide* (1825) and *A Brief Memoir of the Life and Character of William Baker, F.G.S.* (1854). In 1799 he was apprenticed to Thomas Pkye, a brazier and bell-founder, but eventually joined the Navy. After being shipwrecked he returned to Bridgwater and resumed his apprenticeship with Pyke. After moving to London, he worked with a lighthouse contractor in 1806. In 1807-8, he worked in the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, to install a tempor

• A Brief Memoir Of The Life And Character Of William Baker
• Letters to the editor of the Times, on the reform poor law
• Brief Memoir of the Life and Character of William Baker
• Conditions of social welfare
• Letter to Mr. John Bowen, of Bridgewater
• New Poor Law
• Russell Predictions on the Working Class, the National Debt, and the New Poor Law, Dissected