{{Short description|British clergyman and Dean of Exeter (1816–1900)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Very Reverend | name = Benjamin Cowie | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = 150px | order = Dean of Exeter | term_start = 1883 | term_end = 1900 | monarch = | predecessor = | successor = | order2 = Dean of Manchester | term_start2 = 1872 | term_end2 = 1883 | monarch2 = | prime_minister2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | monarch3 = | prime_minister3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | order4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | monarch4 = | prime_minister4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | order5 = | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | monarch5 = | prime_minister5 = | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | order6 = | term_start6 = | term_end6 = | prime_minister6 = | predecessor6 = | successor6 = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = | alma_mater = | spouse = }} {{Portal|Christianity}}
'''Benjamin Morgan Cowie''' was Dean of Manchester and then Exeter, both in England, in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Born on 8 June 1816,<ref>“Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and graduated Senior Wrangler in 1839.<ref>"Mr Hopkins’ Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century" Craik, A.D.D: London, Springer, 2007 {{ISBN|978-1-84628-790-9}}</ref> Ordained in 1841 he was successively Tutor, Lecturer and Fellow at his old college.<ref>{{acad|id=CWY833BM|name=Cowie, Benjamin Morgan}}</ref> Afterwards he was Vicar of St Lawrence Jewry followed by an 11-year spell in Manchester,<ref>Victoria County History A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 J. Brownbill; William Farrer, W (ed) 1911</ref> followed by a further 17 at Exeter. He died on 3 May 1900.<ref>The Times, Friday, 4 May 1900; pg. 6; Issue 36133; col G ''Obituary-The Dean Of Exeter''</ref>
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