Individual Details

Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:35 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Schenectady0238" schenectady0238
Thomas William Bowlby (10) [Richard (5)] was born at Gibraltar on January 7, 1818. He
was the eldest of nine children born to Thomas Bowlby (9), a Captain in the British Royal
Artillery, and his first wife, Williamina Martha Arnold (Balfour) Bowlby, a daughter of
Major-General William Balfour, who were married February 1, 1817 at Gibraltar.
Williamina died on February 3, 1834 in County Durham, England.

Thomas William grew up in Sunderland, Durham where his father became a timber merchant. After finishing his schooling with a private Scottish tutor, he trained as an attorney under his cousin, Russell Bowlby, also of Sunderland. After completing his training in law, he moved to London where he worked as a law clerk and in 1846 became a junior partner in a law firm. However, he decided he would prefer a career as a writer, and in 1848, he went to Berlin, Germany to report on the revolutions that were occurring in Europe as a special correspondent for The Times, a British daily newspaper which had been founded in 1785.
In 1860, Thomas William Bowlby was sent by The Times to China. At that time, the British were engaged in the Second Anglo-Chinese War, also known as the Second Opium War (1856-1860). He traveled on the steamship, the S.S. Malabar, with a Scottish lord, James Bruce, the 8th Earl of Elgin, who was then the British ambassador to China, and with Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, then the French ambassador to London. However, the ship encountered a severe storm, was beached, and sank in Galle harbor, southern Sri Lanka, on May 22, 1860. Thomas William wrote informative reports from China which were popular with Times readers, his report of the shipwreck considered one of his best.
After Tientsin, China was captured by the British forces on August 23, 1860, Admiral Sir James Hope and four others went to Tungchow to begin arrangements for peace. Thomas William Bowlby accompanied them; however, they were captured and imprisoned by San-kolin-sin, a Chinese Tatar general. Thomas William Bowlby died at Tungchow on September 22, 1860, form the effects of the treatment he received in prison. He was buried in the Russian Cemetery, An-tin Gate, Peking, China on October 17, 1860.
Thomas William Bowlby was married to Frances Marion Mein, a daughter of Pulteney Mein, a surgeon. The couple married on September 23, 1848 at Canonbie, County Dumfries, Scotland and had seven children, one of them being Anthony Alfred Bowlby, who later became a medical doctor and surgeon and was created a baronet in 1923. Sir Anthony's grandson, Sir Richard Peregrine Longstaff Bowlby (13), is the third and current Bowlby baronet. Sir Richard's father was Sir Anthony's second son, John Bowlby, M.D. (Edward John Mostyn Bowlby), the famous child psychiatrist and author of the Attachment Theory regarding young children and their primary caretakers.
September 22nd, 2012, marks the 152nd anniversary of the unfortunate and early death of Thomas William Bowlby (10) (Richard (5)].
Wayne Bowlby (13) [Richard (7)]
Sources:
Bowlby Families in England and America, 1993, Raymond Edwin Bowlby (14)
http://www.thepeerage.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_William_Bowlby
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Opium_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/The_Times
http://redroom.com/member/frank-sanello/writing/lord-elgin's-revenge-the-burning-
of-the-chinese-emperor's-summer-palace
http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Louis_Gros

Birth	7 JAN 1818	Gibraltar
Baptism	24 JAN 1818	Gibraltar
Marriage	23 SEP 1848	Canonbie, County Dumfries, Scotland, UK - Frances Marian MEIN
Death	22 SEP 1860	Tungchow, China
Burial	17 OCT 1860	the Russian Cem., An-tin Gate, Peking, China

Spouse	Frances Marian MEIN (1824 - 1891)
Child	Charles Cotsford BOWLBY (1849 - )
Child	Frances Anne BOWLBY (1851 - )
Child	William BOWLBY (1853 - )
Child	Sir Anthony Alfred BOWLBY (1855 - 1929)
Child	Thomas William BOWLBY (1856 - 1856)
Child	Wilhelmina Alethea BOWLBY (1856 - 1856)
Child	Frederic Alexander BOWLBY (1858 - 1911)

Father	Thomas BOWLBY (1790 - 1842)
Mother	Williamina Martha Arnold BALFOUR ( - 1834)
Sibling	John George BOWLBY (1820 - 1842)
Sibling	Jane Catherine Helen BOWLBY (1821 - 1911)
Sibling	Charles Halkett Norbourne BOWLBY (1824 - 1859)
Sibling	Anthony Garthwaite Temple BOWLBY (1826 - 1868)
Sibling	Alfred Picton BOWLBY (1828 - 1878)
Sibling	Mina Alethea BOWLBY (1830 - 1894)
Sibling	Eleanor BOWLBY (1832 - 1832)
Sibling	Frances Martha BOWLBY (1834 - 1834)