George Buckley Bower (1748–c. 1800)[1][2][3] was an English churchman and academic. He was Archdeacon of Richmond from 1797 until his death.[4]
He was the son of Buckley Bower, an attorney in Stockport. He was born there, baptised there on 30 June 1848, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School.[1][5][6] He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1764, graduating B.A. in 1768.[2] In 1769 he became a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.[7]
From 1787 Bower was the incumbent at Great Billing, becoming also Archdeacon of Richmond in 1797.[8] He died at Aspenshaw Hall, Derbyshire. One source gives the date of death as 26 December 1800.[5] Other sources state he died in 1801.
Bower was married, his wife dying in 1800, before he did. A daughter Frances survived them, dying in 1815.[9]
He was the nephew of Edward Penny, who left him notes of his lectures as first professor of painting at the Royal Academy.[10]