Sir G. Bowyer, for a long time a Member of
Parliament, a Knight of Malta, and a Companion of various other foreign Orders, died at his chambers in the Temple on Wednesday night. He was a rather learned lawyer in some departments, and showed a considerable amount of moral courage as M.P. for the county of Wexford in repudiating the Home-rule party, when its leader went beyond what seemed to him the limits of a constitutional agitation. He became a Roman Catholic in 1850, and remained staunch to that faith to the end. He was, indeed, one of the bitterest foes of the Italian Revolution in the House of Commons, and often measured swords with Mr. Gladstone in the years following 1860, on the subject of Italy. His knowledge was greater than his ability, but his tenacity of purpose earned him general respect.
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