Author:John Bowring

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John Bowring
(1792–1872)

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English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer and polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong. Father of Edgar Alfred Bowring and Lewin Bentham Bowring and husband of Deborah Bowring.

Works

Hymns (Privately published, 1825)
- "Watchman, Tell Us of the Night"
- "In the Cross of Christ I Glory"
Matins and Vespers; with Hymns and Occasional Devotional Pieces (1827) (external scan)
Minor Morals for Young People, Illustrated in Tales and Travels (1838) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins and Accounts (1854) (external scan)
The Kingdom and People of Siam; with a Narrative of the Mission to That Country in 1855 (1857) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
A Visit to the Philippine Islands (1859) (external scan)
"The Wreck of the Alma" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
"The Blind Woman of Manzanares" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
"Oriental Recollections: Peeps into the Harem" in Once a Week, Series 1, 3 (1860)
A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry, edited by Deborah Bowring (1873) (external scan)

As translator and anthologist

Specimens of the Russian Poets (1821–1823) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
- "God (Derzhavin)"
Peter Schlemihl: A German Story, from Adelbert von Chamisso (1824)
Batavian Anthology; or, Specimens of the Dutch Poets; with Remarks on the Poetical Literature and Language of the Netherlands, to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1824) (external scan)
Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824) (external scan)
Specimens of the Polish Poets; with Notes and Observations on the Literature of Poland (1827) (external scan)
Servian Popular Poetry (1827) (external scan)
Sketch of the Language and Literature of Holland: Being a Sequal to His Batavian Anthology (1829) (external scan)
Poetry of the Magyars, Preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania (1830)
Cheskian Anthology: Being a History of the Poetical Literature of Bohemia, with Translated Specimens (1832)
Translations from Alexander Petőfi, the Magyar Poet (1866) (external scan)

Works about Bowring

"The Administration of Sir John Bowring," in Europe in China by Ernst Johann Eitel (1895)
"Bowring, Sir John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Bowring, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Bowring, Sir John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Tydus-Pooh-Pooh," in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery (pp. 74−76), by William Bates, illustrated by Daniel Maclise, London: Chatto and Windus (1883)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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