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The Rt Rev John Phillips Allcot Bowers (15 May 1854 Portsea Portsmouth Hampshire – 6 January 1926 Norwich) was Bishop of Thetford in the Church of England 1903-1926.John Bowers was educated at Magdalen School and St John’s College Cambridge. His first post after ordination was as a Curate at Coggeshall. From 1882 to 1903 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester and went on to be Diocesan Missioner and a Residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral (1890–1902.