Family and Education
b. 1632, 3rd s. of Richard Fowler (d.1681), minister of Westerleigh, Glos. educ. College Sch. Gloucester; Corpus Christi Oxf., matric. 1650, BA 1653, BD 1681, DD 1681; Trinity Coll. Camb., MA 1656. m. (1) Ann (d. 19 Dec. 1696), da. of Arthur Barnardiston, master in chancery, 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 5da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) Elizabeth (d. 2 Apr. 1732), da. of Ralph Trevor, merchant of London, wid. of Hezekiah Burton, clergyman. d. 26 Aug. 1714; will 14 Dec. 1706 -c. Apr. 1711, pr. 7 Oct. 1714. TNA, PROB 11/542.
Offices Held
Chap. to Corpus Christi Oxf. 1653, to Amabel, dowager countess of Kent 1656, to William III and Mary II 1689.
Rect. Northill, Beds. 1656 – c.73, All Hallows Bread St London 1673 – 81; canon Gloucester 1676 – 91; reader in divinity St Paul’s Cathedral 1680; vic. St Giles Cripplegate 1681 – 1714.
Mbr. ecclesiastical commn. 1689,
Parlimentarian
Associated with: var. residences in London incl. Warwick Lane and Little Chelsea, London 1707–14.
Likenesses
Oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, 1711, Northill Parish Church, Beds.; mezzotint by J. Smith aft. Kneller, 1717, NPG D31425.
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Lords 1660-1715
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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