John Bowring
1792 - 1872
Titles on this disk:
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 1 (Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 2 (Judicial Procedure, Anarchical Fallacies, works on Taxation)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 3 (Usury, Political Economy, Equity, Parliamentary Reform)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 4 (Panopticon, Constitution, Colonies, Codification)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 5 (Scotch Reform, Real Property, Codification Petitions)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 6 (Rationale of Evidence, Rationale of Judicial Evidence)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 7 (Rationale of Judicial Evidence Part 2)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 8 (Chrestomathia, Essays on Logic and Grammar, Tracts on Poor Laws, Tracts on Spanish Affairs)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 9 (Constitutional Code)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 10 (Memoirs Part I and Correspondence)
- editor: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 11 (Memoirs of Bentham Part II and Analytical Index)
About this person:
Bowring was a contributor to the Westminster Review, a supporter of free trade and parliamentary reform, a member of parliament (1835), the executor of Jeremy Bentham’s estate and editor of his collected works, British Consul to Canton (1849) and then Governor of Hong Kong (1854).