{{Short description|Nigerian educationalist (1933–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Leila Fowler | image = | caption = | birth_name = Leila Euphemia Apinke Moore | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1933|3|23}} | birth_place = Lagos, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2025|9||1933|3|23}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = Nurse, lawyer, educationist | title = | boards = | spouse = | children = 3 | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
Chief '''Leila Euphemia Apinke Fowler''', {{postnominals|country=NG|MFR}} (23 March 1933 – September 2025) was a Nigerian educationalist who founded a school. She was awarded the Nigerian chieftaincy of ''Yeye Mofin'' of Lagos by Adeyinka Oyekan, that kingdom's monarch.<ref name=ngr/>
==Life and career== Fowler was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on 23 March 1933.<ref name=ngr/> Her father was Peter Moore. She attended the CMS Girls School, Lagos, but qualified with a Cambridge Certificate at the Queen of Rosary College, Onitsha, in 1951.<ref name="aa">{{Cite web|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200602270234.html|title=Nigeria: Life As I See It: Our Environment Determines Our Personality--Mrs. Leila Fowler|last=Kwazema|first=Joy|date=26 January 2006|website=AllAfrica|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref> She initially worked as a teacher and started to train as a nurse in London. She left and met her future husband, who was a consultant in Lagos. They married in 1953 and had three children.<ref name="ngr">{{Cite news|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/chief-mrs-fowler-the-silent-achiever/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Chief Mrs Fowler: The silent achiever|date=18 January 2019|newspaper=Vanguard|language=en-US|access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref>
Fowler trained to be a lawyer at the Middle Temple and studied at the University of London. She was called to the UK Bar in 1962 and the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1963. She worked for two groups of Lagos lawyers before launching her own company, where she specialised in insurance law.<ref name=ngr/>
Fowler founded the Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls in January 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lagosschoolsonline.com/Schools/Profile/3964|title=VIVIAN FOWLER MEMORIAL COLLEGE FOR GIRLS, Oregun - Lagos Schools Online|website=www.lagosschoolsonline.com|access-date=10 August 2019|archive-date=10 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810163405/http://www.lagosschoolsonline.com/Schools/Profile/3964|url-status=dead}}</ref> The school was named after her daughter who had died.<ref name="bb">{{Cite news|url=https://thenationonlineng.net/leila-fowler-mourns/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Leila Fowler mourns|date=12 December 2015|newspaper=The Nation|language=en-US|access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref>
Her husband, Vidal Fowler, died in 2015.<ref name=bb/> On 8 September 2025, it was announced that Fowler had died at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tinubu Mourns Leila Fowler, Icon Of Education, Service |url=https://www.tvcnews.tv/tinubu-mourns-leila-fowler-icon-of-education-service/ |access-date=8 September 2025 |publisher=TVC News |date=8 September 2025}}</ref>
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