Bowlby, George Herbert

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    • George Herbert Bowlby MD CM MRCS LRCP (16 July 1865 – 10 November 1916) was a Canadian physician and surgeon, municipal politician, and military officer. He was born in the town of Berlin, Ontario (now known as Kitchener), where he later practiced medicine and served in a succession of elected municipal positions, culminating in a term as mayor in 1901. Bowlby was the first person born in Berlin to become its mayor. In 1915, following the outbreak of the First World War, he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and travelled to England. There, he served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and achieved the rank of Major. In November 1916, at the age of 51, he died in an accidental fall from a cliff near the military hospital in Sussex where he was assigned.
    • George Herbert Bowlby was born on 16 July 1865 in the town of Berlin in Canada West, which became known as Kitchener in 1916. His father was David Sovereign Bowlby, who was born in 1828 in Townsend Township in Norfolk County, Ontario. His father, Adam Bowlby, who was George Herbert’s paternal grandfather, was a captain in the colonial militia during the War of 1812 and the Upper Canada Rebellion; his paternal grandfather, Richard Bowlby, who was George Herbert’s great-grandfather, was a United Empire Loyalist who had lived in New Jersey and emigrated to Canada as a result of the American Revolution.
  • Great Grandson to United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=765
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