For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-ninth.
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THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OF BOW
Features: Local people - including patients of the Bow Doctors, and their families
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Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942) - Architect
Maj-Gen Charles James Blomfield (1855-1928) - Soldier
Rev Clotworthy Gillmor (1817-1886) - Insolvent Clergyman
Sophia and George Hughes, wife and son of the Curate of
Clannaborough, and their servant John Knowles drown (1841)
William Wreford (1781-1852) - "found drowned"
Ann Parker alias Willcox (1791-1865) - sentenced to death
Elizabeth Heard (b 1825) shipwrecked off the Australian coast
William Moore cuts his wife's throat 1886
The Riddaway family including Edith Lane (1921-1998) -
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Josias Austin, Alexander Croote, and Wm. Coombe - transported to Australia for stealing two sheep in 1835
William Langman of Coxmoor, Bow. His body found dumped in an Exeter alleyway in 1829
Edwin Partridge Longman, Saddler in Bow transported to Australia for horse stealing in 1847
Rev Dr Whittington Landon (1758-1838) Rector of Bow and Dean of Exeter Cathedral
The Bent family of Sandford - medics and clerics
Samuel Barnes (1784-1858) - Exeter surgeon attacked and robbed on his way to visit a patient in 1842.
17th and 18th century convicts sent to America and Barbados
Rev Charles Rookes (1798-1867) Rector of Nymet Rowland - guilty of seduction
Commander Hugh Horatio Knocker
(1829-1869) -remembered in Colebrooke Church
Dr Charles Snape (1813-1896) - Manslaughter Charge
Thomas Reynolds Arscott (1842-1881) - Manslaughter Charge
Thomas Downey (1768-1816) Surgeon, Sailor and Poet
"Parson Jack" - Rev John Arundel Radford (1799-1861) of Lapford
His son William - U.S. Sheriff shot dead in 1897
His Granddaughter Edith - "Good Time Girl"
The Holman family of Crediton
William Snow - surgeon of Bow - imprisoned for libel 1828
Horatio Reeves, Exeter Druggist, elopes to London 1822
John Crump - drowned in a mine in Newton St Cyres 1842
Giles Yarde - Grave Robber born in Crediton
