Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke , Modern English biography / Boase, F.. - A facsimile of the Truro, 1892-1921 ed (6 vols) Venn : Adm. Fell.-Com. at TRINITY HALL, Dec. 8, 1805. Of Lowesby Hall, Leics. [3rd s. of Sir Thomas, Knt, of Lowesby. B. Jan. 24, 1782. School, Louth Grammar.] Matric. Michs. 1806. Humourist, mimic and a ready rhymster; said to have been dubbed `Fred Fun,' by the Prince Regent. A zealous member of the Pitt Club; President of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. Created Bart., Feb. 7, 1814. Of Lowesby Hall, Leics. Married, Oct. 1815, Mary Anne, dau. and heiress of Anthony Henderson, M.P. Died May 17, 1856, at Leamington. Father of Laurence W. (1846). (Louth Gr. Sch. Reg.; R. W. Goulding; Boase, I. 1092; Burke, P. and B.) 1850 appt. to Fourth Provincial Grand Master of Leicestershire S JOhn#'s Freemasonry Lodge no. 279. Also see http://erl.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=1&id=n q.1856.5.10.1.19.x.368 Notes & Queries, 10 May 1856, p. 368.
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