Eddowes Bowman (12 November 1810 – 1869), was a dissenting tutor. Bowman was the eldest son of John Eddowes Bowman the elder and Elisabeth, his cousin, was born in Nantwich on 12 November 1810. He was educated chiefly at Hazelwood, near Birmingham, by Thomas Wright Hill, father of Sir Rowland Hill. The future postal reformer was his teacher in mathematics. From school he passed to the Eagle foundry, Birmingham, where he improved himself in mechanical engineering. In around 1835, he became sub-manager of the Varteg ironworks, near Pontypool.