Foote Gower [SEP] date of death
Foote Gower
Foote Gower (1725/6–1780) was an English cleric, academic and antiquarian.
Life.
The son of the Rev. Foote Gower, M.A. and M.D., a physician in Chester, he was born there about 1726. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, 15 March 1744, aged 18, and took his degrees of B.A. in 1747, M.A. in 1750, M.B. in 1755, and M.D. in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of his college in 1750.
It is unclear whether Gower practised
The simony case.
In 1782 Fytche brought a court case over the Essex church living of Woodham Walter, in the gift of his wife and vacant by the death of Foote Gower, and his conditional presentation to it of John Eyre, against Robert Lowth as the Bishop of London. Technically the legal action was a "quare impedit", and Lowth was represented by Richard Burn. He won the case in the Court of Common Pleas, where Lord Loughborough ruled that the imposed bond of resignation was valid, and