the Representation of the People Act 1884 as extending the franchise to the agricultural labourer. He opposed the Government of Ireland Bill 1886, and for the next ten years was prominent as Liberal Unionist. He was an influential advocate of the Local Government Act 1894 which created parish councils and district councils. Works Fowle published also religious works: Types of Christ in Nature: Sermons preached at Staines, 1864. The Reconciliation of Religion and Science, 1873. An Essay on the Right Translation of αἰών and αἰώνιος, regarded as exhibiting the Silence of the New Testament as to the Conditions of the Future Life, 1877. The Divine Legation of Christ, 1879. Family Fowle was twice married: in 1861, to Sarah Susannah (d. 1874), daughter of Richard Atkinson, medical practitioner at Richmond, Yorkshire, by whom Fowle had seven daughters; in 1876, to Mabel Jane, daughter of Jacob Isaacs, a West Indian merchant; she survived Fowle with a daughter. Notes Attribution 1835 births 1903 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests English writers Presidents of the Oxford Union