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Maj Charles William Bowlby
(6 May 1861 – 27 Mar 1934)
Maj Charles William Bowlby
(6 May 1861 – 27 Mar 1934)
Major Bowlby was a transitional figure in the family history – though born and bred in England, he joined an Irish regiment and married an Anglo-Irish girl (very possibly connected with the White family of Bantry House) four years later. Some time thereafter, they settled in the village of Akahista, halfway down the Sheep's Head peninsula. And, I suppose, in the fullness of time, upon the death of his father-in-law, they relocated to Coomhola Lodge near Bantry, which in due course was inherited by his elder son Salvin.