{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Richard Bowchier''' (28 January 1661 – 3 November 1723) was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1693 until 1723.<ref>”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy, G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900</ref> He was also known as an antiquarian.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Johnstone|first1=Hilda|title=Richard Bowchier, Archdeacon and Antiquary|journal=History|date=March 1946|volume=31 (New Series)|issue=113|pages=1–8|jstor=24402579}}</ref>

Bouchier was born in Pilton, Devon. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press [https://archive.org/details/alumnicantabrigipt1vol1univiala/page/186/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. ''Abbey – Challis'', (1940) p329 ]</ref> He was incorporated at Oxford in 1683.<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp142-170 Bludworth-Brakell Pages 142-170 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714]</ref> He was a Prebend and Canon<ref>'Appendix 1: Residentiary canons of Chichester', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 2, Chichester Diocese, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1971), pp. 71-80. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol2/pp71-80 [accessed 27 April 2021].</ref> of Chichester Cathedral<ref>[https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=61943 CCEd]</ref> and Vicar of Amport.<ref>[https://gemms.itercommunity.org/view_record.php?table=person&id=2788 GEMMS]</ref>

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