{{Short description|Canadian lawyer and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ward Hamilton Bowlby | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KC|size=100%}} | image = Ward H. Bowlby.png | alt = Portrait of Bowlby | caption = Bowlby, 1912 | birth_date = {{Birth date |1834 |10 |04 |df=y}} | birth_place = Waterford, Townsend Township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age |1917|01|08 |1834 |10 |04 |df=y}} | death_place = Kitchener, Ontario, Canada | education = {{Plainlist| * Upper Canada College * University of Toronto }} | occupation = Lawyer | years_active = | office1 = Town Councillor of Berlin, Ontario | term1 = 1865 | office2 = Reeve of Berlin, Ontario | term_start2 = 1865 | term_end2 = 1868 | predecessor2 = Henry S. Huber | successor2 = Hugo Kranz | known_for = | father = Adam Bowlby | mother = Elizabeth Sovereign | children = Annie Hespeler Bowlby | spouse = {{marriage|Lissie Hespeler|1861}} }}
'''Ward Hamilton Bowlby''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KC}} (October 4, 1834<ref name=bio/> – January 8, 1917) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as reeve of Berlin from 1865 to 1868.<ref name=bio/>
The son of Adam Bowlby and Elizabeth Sovereign, both of United Empire Loyalist descent, he was born in Townsend township, Norfolk County, Upper Canada and was educated in Simcoe, Streetsville and St. Thomas, at Upper Canada College in Toronto and at the University of Toronto.<ref name=generations>{{cite web |url=https://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I39226&tree=generations |title=Warden Ward Hamilton Bowlby |website=Waterloo Region Generations |publisher=Region of Waterloo |access-date=13 March 2021}}</ref> He articled in law with a firm in Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in 1858. Bowlby then set up practice in Berlin.<ref name=bio/> In 1876, he founded the firm Bowlby, Colquhoun and Clement.<ref name=fonds/>
He served on the town and county councils and on the Berlin public school board. In 1862, he was named registrar for South Waterloo. In 1867, Bowlby was named Crown Attorney and clerk of the peace for Waterloo County.<ref name=bio/> He was named King's Counsel. Bowlby retired from the practice of law in 1903.<ref name=fonds>{{cite web |url=http://www.archeion.ca/clement-bowlby-family-fonds;rad?sf_culture=nl |title=Clement Bowlby Family fonds |publisher=University of Waterloo}}</ref>
In 1861, Bowlby married Lissie, the daughter of Jacob Hespeler. His daughter Annie Hespeler Bowlby married George Perley.<ref name=bio>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QgxUAAx8kQC&pg=PA123 |title=A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time ... |pages=124–24 |volume=1 |year=1886 |last=Rose |first=George Maclean}}</ref> Bowlby died on January 8, 1917, and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Kitchener.<ref name=generations />
==See also== {{Portal|Biography}}
* George Bowlby{{spaced ndash}}his nephew * List of mayors of Kitchener, Ontario
==References== {{reflist}}
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