Edward Woodley Bowling

Born on December 25, 1837, Edward Woodley Bowling was an English writer and Anglican clergyman. Records connected with his author listings identify him as a rector of Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire and a late fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

He is best known for Sagittulae, Random Verses, a collection that gathers poems first written across many years, including pieces associated with The Eagle, the magazine of St John's College. The book shows a fondness for university wit, literary allusion, and occasional verse rather than grand, solemn poetry.

Bowling died in 1907. While little biographical detail is widely preserved online, the surviving record suggests a writer whose poetry grew naturally out of scholarship, church life, and the social world of late 19th-century Cambridge.