Master Bowman (Sir Jeffery Bowman FCA) died on Tuesday 18 February 2025, aged 89.

Master Bowman was educated at Winchester College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he earned a First-Class Honours degree in Law. After serving in the Royal Horse Guards from 1953 to 1955, he began a long and influential career at Price Waterhouse, eventually becoming Senior Partner and Joint Chairman of the Price Waterhouse World Firm. Further to this, he served as Chairman of the Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust and Masthead Insurance Underwriting PLC, and for more than 20 years he acted as Auditor to the Duchy of Cornwall. He was Chairman of the Court of Appeal Civil Division Review from 1996 to 1997 and the Crown Office Review from 1999 to 2000. He was a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a governor of Brentwood School. He was Knighted in 1991.

Master Bowman was elected as a an Honorary Bencher of the Inn in 1998. An active member of the Inn, he sat on the Inn's Executive Committee from 2002 to 2009 bringing to the Inn his wealth of experience from the financial world.

The Inn's flag will fly at half-mast in his memory on Tuesday 4 March.

Details of a funeral and/or memorial service will be circulated in due course as appropriate.