Tour Scotland photograph of the Patrick Bower gravestone in the cathedral cemetery in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. A bookseller in St Andrews, he died aged 92, on the 7th of July, 1814. The surname Bowers is of Saxon origin, derived from the word " bur " meaning a chamber; a cottage; a shady recess. Adding er to the end of topographical terms was common in south east England. An alternative origin is " a maker of bows. "
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