Arthur Henry Bowman
1869-1935

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• Arthur Henry Bowman

• Arrangement of material

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Arthur Henry Bowman by Vivian Hill
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Until 1947 a facility in Latin was a requirement of those seeking to become qualified as lawyers in Victoria.  Arthur Henry Bowman would have studied Latin at Mr. Lennon's private school in Fenwick Street, Geelong, when he prepared for Melbourne University Matriculation examination before commencing his Articles of Clerkship in the late 1880s.  The legal practice he started in 1892 continues as Bowman & Knox in Fenwick Street Geelong.  The Latin phrase "Si monumentum requires, circumspice" (If you would see his monument look around.) is appropriate for this Geelong Lawyer.  One is the practice he conducted until his death in 1935.  It still has a family connection as his son Hubert continued after his death and Ian Knox the nephew of Hubert's wife conducts it now.  The other monument is the Geelong Hospital.

A.H. Bowman helped in many Geelong charities and public bodies.  He was chairman of a small committee that, in 1916, promoted the idea and raised money for a new and modern general hospital in place of the then derelict Geelong Infirmary and Benevolent Asylum.  He, and his two friends Clove Myers and Charles Brownlow, the other members of the committee, had the vision and achieved its reality.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Arthur Henry Bowman archive box, which is located at 340.099452  Bowman Hil/Ahb on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order.
 

Date	Title	Item no.
16/7/1932	Handwritten extract from Geelong Advertiser section "Mainly about people" [Click on image to enlarge it]	AB1
11/6/1935	Handwritten extract from Geelong Advertiser re obituary of A.H. Bowman [Click on image to enlarge it]	AB2
1980	Photocopied extract from "Visions and realities - a history of Geelong infirmary & benelovent asylum" by W.R. Lang	AB7
21/7/1993	Invitation to celebration of centenary of the firm A.H. Bowman	AB3
1/1996	Photograph of Bowman Knox and Payne Offices at 32 Fenwick Street, Geelong [Click on image to enlarge it]	AB4
8/2/1997	Cutting from Geelong Advertiser re court appearance 1897 republished in column "100 years ago"	AB5
18/3/1998	Memorandum re. the firm A.H. Bowman by V. Hill	AB6
17/4/2000	Cutting from Geelong Advertiser re. four generation law firm	AB8

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