Thomas Holden Bowker
1807–85
South African politician. Commander in the Eighth Frontier War, 1850–3. Representative, Cape House Assembly, 1853–63. Secretary to the Land Commission on the New Rush diggings at Kimberley, 1872. Excavated stone implements in Fish River. Some of the artifacts were sent to England.
Sources
DSAB
Cohen 1999.
Bibliography
Cohen, Alan. 1999. Mary Elizabeth Barber, the Bowkers and South African prehistory. South African Archaeological Bulletin 54: 120–7.
DSAB: Dictionary of South African biography. Edited by W. J. de Kock et al. 4 vols. Pretoria and Cape Town: Nasionale Boekhandel Beperk [and others]. 1968–81.
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