Born: May 25, 1855, Rug­by, War­wic­kshire, Eng­land.

Died: Ju­ly 30, 1922, Den­ver, Co­lo­ra­do.

Starting at age 12, Gow­er was as­sist­ant or­gan­ist of St. George’s Cha­pel, Wind­sor Cas­tle. He grad­u­at­ed from Bal­li­ol Coll­ege, Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty (BMus 1876, DMus 1883), and in 1874 be­came or­gan­ist and choir­mas­ter at St. Paul’s Church, Tun­bridge Wells, Kent. From 1876 to 1887, he served as mas­ter of mu­sic for Trent Coll­ege, Not­ting­ham, con­duct­ed a lo­cal phil­har­mon­ic so­ci­e­ty, and gave or­gan re­ci­tals. As a vol­un­teer in the 1st Der­by­shire Re­gi­ment, he rose to the rank of cap­tain. He em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1887, set­tling in Den­ver, Co­lo­ra­do. He was or­gan­ist and choir­mas­ter at St. John’s Ca­thed­ral and the Cent­ral Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in Den­ver, and (start­ing in 1893) at the Church of the Epi­pha­ny, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. His wife was Jean M. Gow­er.

Sources

Music

1. Angel Choir
2. Devotion
3. Gower’s Litany
4. Hear the Chiming Easter Bells
5. Holy Day
6. Laus Deo
7. Medita­tion
8. Reliance
9. St. Rotolf
10. Sundown