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John Bowle (died 9 October 1637) was an English churchman and bishop of Rochester.A native of Lancashire he was educated at Trinity College Cambridge where he obtained a fellowship. He proceeded M.A. (1603) D.D. (1613) and was incorporated M.A. of Oxford on 9 July 1605 and D.D. on 11 July 1615. He was household chaplain to Robert Cecil 1st Earl of Salisbury and attended him through his last illness in 1612.Bowle held at one time the living of Tilehurst Berkshire.