George Ferguson Bowen (1821–99)

Irish-born statesman. BA, Oxford (Trinity College), 1844. Fellow, Brasenose College. President, Greek university of Corfu, 1847–51. Appointed first governor of Queensland, Australia, 1859. Governor of New Zealand, 1868–73; of Victoria, Australia, 1873–9; of Mauritius, 1879–82, of Hong Kong, 1882–6. Head of a royal commission to Malta to report on its new constitution, 1887. Knighted, 1856.