John Bowle (bishop)
A native of Lancashire, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship.He became dean of Salisbury in July 1620, preached before the king and parliament on 3 February 1621, and was elected bishop of Rochester on 14 December 1629.Archbishop William Laud, in his account of his archiepiscopate addressed to Charles I for 1637, complained that Bowle had been ill for three years before his death, and had neglected his diocese.He was the author of a Sermon preached at Flitton in the countie of Bedford at the funerall of Henrie [Grey], Earle of Kent, London, 1614, and of a Concio ad ... Patres et Presbyteros totius Provinciæ Cantuar.Bowle married Bridget, a sister of Sir George Copping, 'of the crown office,' by whom he had a son (Richard) and a daughter (Mary).