OF JOHN EDDOWES BOWMAN, ESQ. 59 
templation and experiment, that he was by nature 
fitted to excel—he was distinguished, as a man of 
business, for prudence, judgment and punctuality, 
for the strictest honour, and for great energy and 
decision in cases of difficulty and danger. He 
possessed in an eminent degree the habit of calm 
self-reliance. Once convinced that a measure 
was right, nothing could shake him from his pur- 
pose of adhering to it. Owing chiefly to his firm 
and cautious conduct, the Bank with which he 
was connected at Wrexham, passed safely through 
the perilous crisis occasioned by the panic which 
affected the pecuniary transactions of the country 
in 1825-6. 
His last change of residence was to Manchester, 
where he took up his abode in 1837. Here he 
experienced much happiness from constant inter- 
course with men engaged in kindred pursuits ; a 
new field of observation was opened before him, 
and he applied himself to it with his characteristic 
promptitude and ardour. He entered heartily 
into the objects of all institutions devoted to the 
encouragement and extension of knowledge. To 
the interest and improvement of the meetings of 
this Society he always largely contributed by his 
stores of information, and by the readiness and 
