Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (November 22, 1787 – March 3, 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax and famous for his watercolour landscapes.
Robert Buckle was born 6 January 1802, the fourth son of Edward Buckle of Sowerby, Yorkshire.
The summer home of the MP for Great Grimsby, Austin Mitchell, is situated in the town, and the mansion of Fieldhouse was the seat of the Stansfeld family, who contributed much to the local community, including building St Peter's church.
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Sowerby returned to England during the First World War with the intention of joining up, but to his dismay was posted to the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) due to his ability to speak the language.
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Sowerby was taken on as a naturalist for Robert Sterling Clark's Expedition of 1909 which sought specimens from the Yellow River into Shensi and then to Kansu province and made the first map of a little-known area of China.
(The organ version was both commissioned and first performed by Eric DeLamarter at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago on October 20, 1916.) The piece is one of Sowerby's most popular, and was inspired by a poem by Bliss Carman entitled "Autumn".
Sowerby served as a British counterintelligence agent in France during World War I and moved to the United States in 1923, eventually finding employment in the rare book department of the New York Public Library and with A. S. W. Rosenbach.
Robert Hewitt Barker, British Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1918–1922
In addition, the NADSS sponsored a candidate, Robert Hewitt Barker, in Sowerby in unusual circumstances, in which he inherited the position of unofficial Conservative Party candidate and won.
One of his wives were Edith Mary Sowebry, daughter of Thomas Charles Johnson Sowerby and sister-in-law of Lady Mabel Annesley.
It is at the confluence of the River Calder and River Ryburn, and the name Sowerby Bridge references the area's use as a crossing point over the River Calder to the older settlement at Sowerby.
Sowerby Bridge High School is a mixed comprehensive secondary school in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.
Turriconus excelsus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1908) represented as Conus excelsus G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 (alternate representation)