Well Met! Friends and Travelling Companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles: Journals of Travels in Egypt, Petra and the Near East, 1854

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
List of Figures
	Figure 1.1: A photograph of Rev. Thomas Bowles displayed in the Vestry of the Church of St Augustine of Canterbury at East Hendred where he was Rector for fifteen years.
	Figure 1.2: Family tree for the Rev. Thomas Bowles (Drawn: Julie Kennedy-Pugh).
	Figure 1.3: Milton Hill House. Although significantly remodelled not least to its current condition as a hotel, the family home of Thomas Bowles is largely the white building. It is set still in a large park and includes several magnificent cedar trees (P
	Figure 1.4: Church of St Blaise, Milton (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.5: Monument to members of the Bowles family in the churchyard of St Blaise, Milton. Although extensively inscribed with family names few re readable without cleaning (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.6: (a) Monument and (b) detail of the inscription to Thomas Bowles in the churchyard of St Andrew’s, Grafham, Surrey.
	Figure 1.7: Church of St Augustine of Canterbury at East Hendred (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.8: The Rectory at East Hendred where Thomas Bowles lived from 1875-1890 (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.9: Church of St Barnabas, Jericho, Oxford (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.10: TBs Oxford home at 24 Leckford Road, Oxford (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 1.11: Grave monument of Rev. Thomas Bowles in the Old Cemetery at Abingdon. The end panel records that it is also the resting place of his nephew Francis Wildman Selwode (sic) Bowles in 1940 (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 3.1: A stereophoto of 1862 of the S. S. Bombay in Mort’s dry-dock in Balmain, Sydney (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales) (Public Domain).
	Figure 3.2: Port of Aden, Arabia in 1891 (From F. E. Chadwick et al. 1892: 272) (Public Domain).
	Figure 3.3: ‘Desert Van’ on the Suez-Cairo route (from Barber 1845: 34) (Public Domain).
	Figure 4.1: Indian Mutiny Medal of Dr Patrick Gammie (Courtesy David Galt, Mowbray Collectables www.mowbraycollectables.com).
	Figure 4.2: Grave of Patrick and Mary Gammie, Brompton Cemetery, London (Photo: David Kennedy).
	Figure 4.3: Badger - back row, right, with long white beard, with the Frere Mission to Zanzibar while in Cairo on 22nd December 1873 (Coupland 1939: facing p. 186).
	Figure 4.4: (a) Photo of Henry Tombs in 1857 (Public Domain); (b) Epitaph on his tombstone at Newport.
	Figure 5.1: Portrait of William Palmer
	Figure 5.2: Rev. Pierce Butler in Crimea in 1855 (Roger Fenton Collection, Library of Congress. PH - Fenton (R.), no. 252) (‘No known restrictions on publication’).
	Figure 6.1: The Isle of Graia. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts who was there in 1839. (Library of Congress) (Public Domain).
	Figure 6.2: Lithograph of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, c. 1820 (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
	Figure 6.3: The Long Desert Route to Petra (Drawn: Travis Hearn).
	Figure 6.4: Convent of St. Catherine, with Mount Horeb. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts who was there in 1839 (Cleveland Museum of Art Collection) (Public Domain).
	Figure 7.1: The fort on the shore at Aqaba, residence of the Ottoman governor. The dusty and remote place of 1854 is today a port city and bustling tourist centre of hotels and private beaches (APAAME_20141020_DLK-0040C).
	Figure 7.2: Tombstone of Caroline Reynolds, first wife of Henry Veazey Ward, who seems to have died in childbirth.
	Figure 7.3: Copy of the official Pardon and Amnesty issued to Henry Clay Yeatman shortly after the end of the ‘rebellion’.
	Figure 8.1: The graffito in charcoal of ‘[Rode]wald 1854’ in the Khazneh at Petra (Courtesy of Prof. Fawzi Abudanah).
	Figure 9.1: Sketch of Sheikh Hussein Inb Injad of the Alawin (from Formby 1843).
	Figure 9.2: Elji as recorded on a photograph by Charles Hornstein from a visit in 1895 (Courtesy Palestine Exploration Fund).
	Figure 9.3: Muqabil Abu Zaitoun (Sheick Yomgebel Abouseeton) (Formby 1843: Title page).
	Figure 9.4: Jabal Harun: the plateau with the Byzantine Monastery and the Muslim shrine on the peak above (APAAME_20051002_DLK-0086).
	Figure 9.5: Khazneh from above (APAAME_19980520_DLK-0200C).
	Figure 9.6: The paved road in the Siq. When Thomas Bowles was there, the Siq could be a veritable river in winter, deep in boulders and gravel and thick with oleander bushes, hiding the roadway (APAAMEG_20070409_DLK-0024).
	Figure 9.7: the Obelisk Tomb in the Upper Wadi Musa (APAAMEG_20070409_DLK-0150).
	Figure 9.8: The Royal Tombs: from the left, the Palace, Corinthian, Silk and Urn Tombs (APAAME_20160918_DLK-0367).
	Figure 9.10: Aerial view of the Colonnaded Street, Great Temple, Temenos Arch and Qasr el-Bint al-Pharoun (APAAME_20051002_DLK-0102).
	Figure 9.9: The Theatre (APAAME_20151005_DLK-0429).
	Figure 9.11: Tomb of of the Roman governor of Arabia Titus Sextius Florentinus.
	Figure 9.12: The Deir – note human figures as scales (APAAMEG_20070409_DLK-0126)
	Figure 9.13: Tomb of the Soldier (VHE_20171001_IMG_7730).
	Figure 9.14: Triclinium Tomb – interior (Brünnow and von Domaszewski 1904: 1, 159, Fig. 181).
	Figure 10.1: Pools of Solomon as seen in a photograph of 1890 - they would have been at least as isolated when seen by TB. Today they are in a built-up suburb of west Bethlehem (Library of Congress) (Public Domain).
	Figure 10.2: Photograph of James Finn (Public Domain via Palestine Exploration Fund).
	Figure 10.3: Photograph of Elizabeth Anne Finn (Public Domain via Palestine Exploration Fund).
	Figure 10.4: Tombstone of James and Elizabeth Finn (St Mary’s Churchyard, Wimbledon) (Photo Courtesy: Tina Schofield).
	Figure 10.5: Young women at work in Miss Cooper’s Jewesses Institute as seen in 1854 (Cubley 1860: Plate V).
	Figure 10.6: Mar Saba from the air (Copyright: Andrew Shiva).
	Figure 11.1: (a) The earliest inscriptions as reproduced by the French artist Cassas in 1799; (b) a photograph of 1922 of the inscription of Caracalla recorded by TB.
	Figure 12.1: The Travel Diary of Thomas Bowles: (Top) Cover; (Below) ‘Title Page’.
	Figure 13.1: Page 21 of Travel Diary 3 illustrating the header, handwriting and some of the commonest abbreviations.
	Figure 13.2: Common abbreviations and frequent words as written in the Diary.
	Figure 14.1: Sketch of Tomb of Mehmet Ali in Cairo.
	Figure 14.2: Sketch of features of a tomb at Petra.
	Figure 14.3: Greek Text.
	Figure 14.4: Sketch of the Convent at Nazareth locality.
	Figure 14.5: Pattern on the plates on the door of the Great Mosque in Damascus.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The Grand Tour
Rev. Thomas Bowles: Biography
	Early Life and Education of Thomas Bowles
	The Rev. Thomas Bowles
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	Retirement and Death
	Religious Views of Thomas Bowles
Thomas Bowles’s Grand Tour
	Bowles’s Travelling Companions from Plymouth to Australia and Beyond
		Rev. Henry Francis Stobart (Chester-le-Street, 26 April 1824 – Funchal, Madeira, 30 December 1895)
		Lord Henry Scott (5 November 1832 - 4 November 1905)
		Lord Schomberg Kerr (2 December 1833 – 17 January 1900)
		Servants
	The Journey
Sailing from Galle via Aden to Suez and Cairo
	Introduction
	S. S. Bombay
	Aden
	Suez to Cairo
	Shepheard’s Hotel
Travelling Companions and Encounters from Galle to Cairo
	Rev. William George Tupper
		Stephen Lushington
		Dr Patrick Gammie
		Walter Scott Campbell Seton-Karr
		Rev. George Percy Badger
		(Later) Major-General Sir Henry Tombs, VC, KCB
		Rev. Charles Tombs
Thomas Bowles in Egypt
	Motivations
	Tourism
	Western visitors in Egypt and the Near East in the 19th century
	Bowles Tourism
	Health
	Companions in Cairo
		George Strachan
		William Palmer
		Alfred Henry Pierpont Edwards
		Mr and Mrs Samuel Briggs
		Capt. Henry Thomas Butler
		Rev. Pierce Butler
		Antonio Schranz
Petra and Visiting Petra in the 19th century:
	Petra
	Handbooks
	Logistics of Travelling to Petra
	The Journey
	Conditions of Travel
Companions on the Long Desert Route: 1
	Travelling Companions
		Henry Hyndman Kennedy
		Rev. George Metcalfe Fenton
		Samuel Greame Fenton
		Mr John Leverett Rogers
		Mrs Virginia Beverley Rogers (née Wood)
		Henry Veazey Ward
		Henry Clay Yeatman
Companions on the Long Desert Route: 2
	Rev. James Henry Eames
		Jane Anthony Eames
		‘Mr F[ish] from Alabama’
		Charles Rodewald = Carl Reinhard Conrad Rodewald
		Robert Ross-of-Bladensburg
		Dr William Bryce
		John Edward Wakefield
		‘Mr Freeman’
Thomas Bowles at Petra
	The Alawin
	The Inhabitants of the Ruins
	Thomas Bowles inside Petra
Jerusalem and Associated Trips
	Palestine
		Elizabeth Finn (née McCaul)
		James Finn
		Colonel and Mrs West
		Edward Heneage
		Renee Elizabeth Levina (née Hoare) Heneage
		James Graham
		Caroline Cooper
		Matilda Creasey
		Rev. John Wheeler Hayward
Palestine, Syria and Lebanon and Return Home
	Lucius Bentinck Cary
		Amelia FitzClarence, Lady Falkland
		General the Honourable Sir St. George Gerald Foley, K.C.B.
		Nelson Rycroft
		Arthur Lannay Coussmaker
Part 2 The Journals
The Journals: Character, writing, composition, survival
Abbreviations and Symbols; Editing
Transcription of the Travel Journal of Rev. Thomas Bowles
	Travel Journal 2
	Travel Journal 3
Appendices
	Appendix 1: The Anglo-American Group at Petra 26-29 March 1854.
	Appendix 2: Timeline of Bowles’ Journey in Egypt and the Levant.
Bibliography
	Published Sources
	Unpublished Sources