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4 unusual facts about Archibald Bower


Archibald Bower

After a novitiate of two years he went in 1712 to Fano, where he taught classics till 1714, when he moved to Fermo.

Through the royal physician Thomas Goodman, Bower obtained a recommendation to Lord Aylmer, who wanted a classical tutor.

He took on a tutoring post, the education of the son of a Mr. Thompson, of Cooley, Berkshire; he switched after a year to Aylmer's household.

David Garrick, once a friend of Bower, threatened to write a farce in which Bower was to be introduced on the stage as a mock convert.



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