Neurology and Neurosurgery), Queen Square, London, and was on the board of Le Court Cheshire Home near Petersfield. Gowers died in April 1966, at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex, age 85, nine months after his revision of Fowler's Modern English Usage was published. Honours and awards Gowers was created CB in 1917, Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Belgium in 1918, KBE in 1926, KCB in 1928, GBE in 1945, and GCB in 1953. He was Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod of the Order of the British Empire, 1952–60. He was a Freeman of Royal Borough of the Kingston-on-Thames. Gowers received an honorary doctorate from Manchester University, was an honorary fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and an honorary Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and was elected president of the English Association (1956–57). Personal life Ernest Gowers and Constance (Kit) had three children and six grandchildren, for whom they always offered an open house in the school holidays. When Kit died in 1952, one of their daughters, the oboist Peggy Shiffner, gave up her career and moved in to look after him, also working as a volunteer at Le Court. The composer Patrick Gowers was his grandson, and the mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers is his great-grandson. Works Books Official reports References 1880 births 1966 deaths Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge British male writers British non-fiction writers Chairmen of the Board of Inland Revenue Civil servants in HM Treasury Civil servants in the Board of Trade Civil servants in the India Office Civil servants in the Ministry of National Insurance Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Rugby School Private secretaries in the British Civil Service Writers of style guides 20th-century non-fiction writers Male non-fiction writers