Bowdler is a prominent family from Shropshire in England, descended from Baldwin de Boulers.

People with the given name Bowdler

• George Bowdler Buckton (1818–1905), English entomologist

• Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), English zoologist

People with the surname Bowdler

Writers

• Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler (? - 1797), English religious writer

• Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830), writer and expurgator of Shakespeare, sister of Jane, John and Thomas Bowdler

• Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist and sister of John, Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler

• John Bowdler (1746–1823), moral reformer and brother of Henrietta and Thomas Bowdler

• John Bowdler the Younger (1783–1815), essayist, poet and lawyer, son of John Bowdler

• Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English physician, publisher and editor of the Family Shakespeare (1818), inspiration of the term bowdlerisation

• Thomas Bowdler the Younger (1782–1856), Church of England priest and nephew and editor of Thomas Bowdler

Sportsmen

• Cal Bowdler (born 1977), retired American basketball player

• Charles Bowdler (1785–1879), English cricketer

• Ernie Bowdler (1872–1921), Shrewsbury Town F.C. and Wales international footballer

• Jack Bowdler (1870–1927), Shrewsbury Town F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. and Wales international footballer

• Lonza Bowdler, Welsh international rugby player

Politicians

• Audley Bowdler (1884–1969), English politician

• William G. Bowdler (1924–2016), American diplomat

Other

• Emily Mary Bowdler Sharpe (1868–1920), English entomologist

• Sandra Bowdler (1946), Australian archaeologist

Places

Ashford Bowdler, a village in Shropshire, England

• Ashford Bowdler railway station, railway station in Ashford Bowdler

• Hope Bowdler, a village in Shropshire, England

See also

• Hen Domen the Bowdler family seat

External links

• Genealogy and History of the Bowdler Family