William Henry Stowe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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scholar and journalist
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1825
Place of Birth: Buckingham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 22-Jun-1855
Profession: journalist
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About William Henry Stowe
- William Henry Stowe (1 January 1825 – 22 June 1855), scholar and journalist, eldest son of William and Mary Stowe, was born at Buckingham on 1 January 1825.
- After attending a school at Iffley, near Oxford, he spent six months at King Edward's School, Birmingham.
- Leaving at Easter 1840, he studied medicine for three years at Buckingham, but, finding the pursuit uncongenial, entered at Wadham College, Oxford, in January 1844.
- At Oxford he was intimately associated with George Granville Bradley (afterwards Dean of Westminster), John Conington, and other members of the Rugby set.
- In 1848 he was placed in the first class in the final classical school with Edward Parry (afterwards Bishop Suffragan of Dover) and William Stubbs (afterwards Bishop of Oxford).
- After occupying himself for two years in private tuition at Oxford, he began in 1851 a connection with The Times by contributing literary articles, among them a comparison of the characteristics of Thackeray and Dickens.
- In March 1852 he obtained an open fellowship at Oriel College, and afterwards entered at Lincoln's Inn. In May 1852 John Walter, the proprietor, gave him a permanent post on the staff of The Times.
- His work for the paper was mainly confined to literary subjects, although he wrote many leading articles on miscellaneous topics.
- His reviews of John William Kaye's History of the War in Afghanistan and of Dickens's David Copperfield were reissued in Essays from the Times (2nd ser.
- 1854), edited by Samuel Phillips.
- Other literary notices by him of interest were on Niebuhr's Letters (1853) and on The Mechanical Inventions of James Watt (1855).
- His obituary article on Lord Brougham appeared in The Times of 11 May 1868, thirteen years after Stowe's own death. In 1855 The Times organised a "sick and wounded fund" for the relief of the British army in the Crimea, and Stowe was selected to proceed to the east as the fund's almoner.
- He reached Constantinople (now Istanbul) before the end of February, and was soon at Scutari (now Üsküdar), whence he moved to Balaklava.
- There he visited the hospitals and camp, and reported on the defects of the sanitary situation.
- "Others talked, Mr.
- Stowe acted," wrote Frances Margaret Taylor, the author of Eastern Hospitals and English Nurses (1857).
- On 16 March his first letter from the Crimea appeared in The Times, and described the Balaklava hospitals and the health of the army.
- Many further despatches on like subjects followed up to midsummer 1855.
- Two of Stowe's letters (Nos.
- 80 and 81) described the third bombardment of Sebastopol, and were included in The Times Crimean War correspondent William Howard Russell's The War (1855).
- But Stowe's health was unable to resist the fatigue and exposure to an unhealthy climate which were incident to his labours.
- He died of camp fever at Balaklava on 22 June 1855 and was buried in the cemetery there (see Illustrated London News, 22 November 1855).
- A cenotaph to his memory was erected by friends in the chapel of Oriel College.
- John Walter, in a leading article in The Times of 6 July 1855, recounted Stowe's experiences in the Crimea, and characterised his despatches as "an astonishing effort of intellectual and descriptive talent."
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