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Moses Bowness

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Academic article in the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. CWAAS 2009 Vol IX. pp 225–231. with footnotes and references.“Moses Bowness, Photographer, and the Promotion of Tourism in the Nineteenth
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in the Lake District, England, the largest photographic business in Westmorland at that time. He photographed many notable people and visitors, as well as local views and residents. In May 1857 he photographed the visiting party of the young
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The National Portrait Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust at Grasmere; the Armitt Museum in Ambleside, and Kendal Local Studies Centre all own a number of his photographs. Others are in private hands.
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in 1860 and they helped each other's businesses in that Moses photographed him and sold his books, while John Close wrote about and advertised his studio in his various pamphlets and books.
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The picture shows the many buildings connected with his business. He built his lodging house, Vale View - now The Churchill Hotel - on the land in the foreground
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He trained a number of local photographers, including Charles Walmsley and Herbert Bell, whose family he photographed and who later bought his archive.
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He took an active part in the development of the tourist trade; built shops and lodging-houses; farmed 500 acres at Low Wray,
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His first wife was the widow of a local builder; his second the daughter and heiress of Josiah Hudleston, member of the
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Some of his sitters include Wordsworth's younger relatives and are now in the Wordsworth Trust;
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Westmorland Gazette 16th & 23 May 1857 The Prince of Wales in the Lake District.
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are both in the National Portrait Gallery; and Charlotte Mason is in the Armitt
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Westmorland Gazette 28 April 1894 Obituary & Inquest.
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23 April 1894. Buried in his family grave in Coniston
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Royal Windsor Archive RAVIC/MAIN/EV11D/1857 May 9–20.
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Index


Ambleside
Prince of Wales
King Edward VII
carte-de-visite
Wray Castle
Royal Photographic Society
Stock Ghyll
East India Company

'Poet Close'
William Edward Forster
Harriet Martineau
Coniston
W A Beck
The Bowder Stone
Frances Holden
William Barratt
View Rydal church & hall cirra 1860.jpg
Bridge in Westmorland
Kirkstone Inn cirra 1858

"Charles Walmsley"
"Herbert Bell"
"Royal Photographic Society"
"Hudleston Biography"
"British Library"
"Wordsworth's younger relatives"
"Charlotte Mason"
"National Portrait Gallery, London"

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