F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

Francis George Fowler was an English writer on language, grammar, and usage, remembered above all for his collaboration with his older brother, Henry Watson Fowler. Together they wrote The King's English (1906), a book that became highly influential in shaping ideas about clear, disciplined English prose.

Born in Tunbridge Wells and educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he later lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands. The brothers also worked together as translators, including on Lucian, showing the same care for precision and tone that made their language writing so admired.

Fowler died in 1918. Although Henry Watson Fowler later became the more widely recognized name, Francis George Fowler played an important part in the partnership behind one of the best-known style guides in English.