Past Lieutenant Governors

The Honourable Richard Spinks Bowles
Archives of Manitoba: Bowles, Richard Spinks 1 (N21824)

Term of Office: 1 September 1965 - 2 September 1970
Born: Winnipeg, 16 November 1912
Died: Winnipeg, 9 July 1988

• Educated at University of Manitoba and Manitoba Law School.
• Practiced law from 1937 to his appointment as Lieutenant Governor, establishing his own law firm in 1940.
• First President of the Home and School Association 1952.
• Member of the Winnipeg Board of Parks and Recreation 1953-57, chairman 1956-57.
• President of the Manitoba Bar Association 1961 and of the Law Society of Manitoba 1964-65.
• Returned to private law practice following his term of office.
• Chancellor of the University of Manitoba 1974-77.

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