Ward Bowlby

Ward Hamilton Bowlby KC (October 4, 1834[1] – January 8, 1917) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as reeve of Berlin from 1865 to 1868.[1]

Ward Hamilton Bowlby
KC
Portrait of Bowlby
Bowlby, 1912
Town Councillor of Berlin, Ontario
In office
1865
Reeve of Berlin, Ontario
In office
1865–1868
Preceded byHenry S. Huber
Succeeded byHugo Kranz
Personal details
Born(1834 -10-04)4 October 1834
Waterford, Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada
Died8 January 1917(1917-01-08) (aged 82)
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Spouse
Lissie Hespeler
​
(m. 1861)​
ChildrenAnnie Hespeler Bowlby
Parents
  • Adam Bowlby (father)
  • Elizabeth Sovereign (mother)
Education
OccupationLawyer

The son of Adam Bowlby and Elizabeth Sovereign, both of United Empire Loyalist descent, he was born in Townsend township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada and was educated in Simcoe, Streetsville and St. Thomas, at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at the University of Toronto.[2] He articled in law with a firm in Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in 1858. Bowlby then set up practice in Berlin.[1] In 1876, he founded the firm Bowlby, Colquhoun and Clement.[3]

He served on the town and county councils and on the Berlin public school board. In 1862, he was named registrar for South Waterloo. In 1867, Bowlby was named Crown Attorney and clerk of the peace for Waterloo County.[1] He was named King's Counsel. Bowlby retired from the practice of law in 1903.[3]

In 1861, Bowlby married Lissie, the daughter of Jacob Hespeler. His daughter Annie Hespeler Bowlby married George Perley.[1] Bowlby died on January 8, 1917, and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.[2]

See also

References
  1. Rose, George Maclean (1886). A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time ... Vol. 1. pp. 124–24.
  2. "Warden Ward Hamilton Bowlby". Waterloo Region Generations. Region of Waterloo. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  3. "Clement Bowlby Family fonds". University of Waterloo.


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