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Edward Augustus Bowles
Edward Augustus (Gus or Gussie) Bowles, VMH (14 May 1865 – 7 May 1954), known professionally as E. A. Bowles, was a British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer.〔Stearn, W. T., 'Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) ISBN 0-19-861411-X〕 He developed an important garden at Myddelton House, his lifelong home at Bulls Cross in Enfield, Middlesex and his name has been preserved in many varieties of plant.
==Background==
E. A. Bowles was born at his family's home, Myddelton House (1818), near Enfield. He was of Huguenot descent through his maternal great-grandmother and his father, Henry Carington Bowles Bowles ''(sic)'' (1830–1918), son of Anne Sarah Bowles, who inherited Myddelton House and married Edward Treacher. Their son adopted his mother's surname in 1852 for inheritance purposes〔 and married E.A. Bowles' mother, Cornelia Kingdom (1831–1911), in 1856, was Chairman of the New River Company, which until 1904 controlled the artificial waterway that flowed past Myddelton, bringing water to London from the River Lea.〔Miles Hadfield (1960) ''A History of British Gardening''〕 Through his elder brother Henry,〔Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles, 1st baronet (1858–1943), Member of Parliament for Enfield 1889–1906 and 1918–22.〕 who after 1894 lived at neighbouring Forty Hall, Bowles was the great uncle of Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), whose first wife, Camilla Shand, became Duchess of Cornwall on her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales in 2005.〔Bryan Hewitt (1997) ''The Crocus King: E. A. Bowles of Myddleton House''; genealogical display in Myddelton House museum, 2011〕
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