Sir William Bowman

Physician and ophthalmic surgeon, born in Nantwich, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. With Richard B Todd (1809–60) he published Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man (1845–56). He gained a high reputation for his work on the mechanism of kidney function, and also for his Lectures on Operations on the Eye (1849), describing the ciliary muscle.

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (July 20, 1816 - March 29, 1892) was a British surgeon, histologist &

Born in Nantwich, Cheshire, third son of a banker & He left Birmingham in 1837 to further his training as a surgeon and attended King's College London, where he served as a prosector under Robert Bentley Todd, a professor of physiology.

His earliest notable work was on the structure of striated muscle, for which he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1841. He presented his findings in 1842 in his paper "On the Structure and Use of the Malpighian Bodies of the Kidney" to the Royal Society and was awarded the Royal Medal. His collaboration with Todd led to the publication of the five-volume "Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man" (1843-1856) and "Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology" (1852), which detailed their research on microscopy and histology, relating minute anatomical observations to physiological functions. Apart from the Bowman's capsule, other anatomical structures named after him include:

Bowman's glands — in the olfactory mucosa Bowman's membrane — the anterior limiting membrane in the cornea

After completing his surgical training in 1844, Bowman practised as an ophthalmologist at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (later known as Moorfields Eye Hospital). In 1880, he founded the 'Ophthalmological Society', which later became the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

In 1884, Queen Victoria created him as a baronet.

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