BOWDEN, Ernest Monnington. Rochford, Herefordshire bapt. 17.7.1859 — Ramsgate, Kent 3.4.1904. British Author and Inventor (Wikipedia calls him Irishman, which seems unlikely, his father was born in London). The youngest child of Rev. Ellis Treacher Bowden (1819–1896) and Maria Jones (d. 1875). After Malvern College studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1881). In 1892 in India and Ceylon visiting Buddhist sights. Member of R.A.S. from 1901, living in Bedford Place, London. He invented the Bowden cable, used in bicycle brakes, in 1896, and founded E. M. Bowden’s Patent Syndicate. Married 1884 Norah Hayward (1865–1949, divorce 1903).
Publications: Wrote on Ceylon archaeology and religion (ethnology) in the 1890s.
– The imitation of Buddha: quotations from Buddhist literature for each day of the year. 148 p. L. 1891; 6th ed. 1911 (selected from English and French translations); Dutch translation 1891, German 1905.
Sources: Not in Br. Biogr. Arch. 1st and 2nd Series; only one book in N.U.C. Visit to Adyar 1892 mentioned in The Path 7, 1892-93; wife in myheritage.fi; briefly German Wikipedia; more in freespace.virgin.net/harding.s.j/Genealogy/Ernest_Monnington_Bowden.htm.
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