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Bowyer Edward Sparke (27 April 1759 – 4 April 1836) was an English bishop.

Life

He was born at Bury St Edmunds, and was admitted a pensioner at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 27 October 1777, where he matriculated in 1778. He graduated B.A. in 1782 and M.A. in 1785; he was D.D. 1803. He became a Fellow of his college in 1784.

He was tutor to John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland, who then found him a rectory. He was vicar of Scalford, Leicestershire from 1800 to 1805, and vicar of Redmile, 1800 to 1809. He was vicar of St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, from 1803 to 1810.

He became Dean of Bristol in 1803, Bishop of Chester in 1809, and was Bishop of Ely from 1812 until his death at an age of 77.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1810.

According to George W. E. Russell, Sparke gave so many of his best livings to his family that it was said locally that you could find your way across the Fens on a dark night "by the number of little Sparkes along the road."

He died at Ely House, Dover Street, London. His body was interred on 16 April 1836 in a vault in Bishop West's chapel at Ely Cathedral.

Arms

Coat of arms of Bowyer Sparke
	Escutcheon Checky Or and Vert a bend Ermine.

References

"Bowyer Sparke (SPRK777BE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Notes

http://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/HarrattvolumeLXI-3sm.pdf, p. 15.
"Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
George W. E. Russell, Collections & Recollections (Revised edition, Smith Elder & Co, London, 1899), at pages 70-71.
Urban, Sylvanus (1836). "Obituary - Rt Rev B E Sparke, DD Bishop of Ely". The Gentleman's Magazine. V.
"The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 8 February 2021.

Church of England titles
Preceded byCharles Layard	Dean of Bristol 1803–1810	Succeeded byJohn Parsons
Preceded byHenry Majendie	Bishop of Chester 1810–1812	Succeeded byGeorge Henry Law
Preceded byThomas Dampier	Bishop of Ely 1812–1836	Succeeded byJoseph Allen

v t e Deans of Bristol
Early modern	William Snow John Whiteheare George Carew Henry Joliffe John Sprint Anthony Watson Simon Robson Edward Chetwynd Matthew Nicholas Henry Glemham Richard Towgood Samuel Crossman Richard Thompson William Levett George Royse Robert Booth Samuel Creswicke Thomas Chamberlayne William Warburton Samuel Squire Francis Ayscough Cutts Barton John Hallam
Late modern	Charles Layard Bowyer Sparke John Parsons Henry Beeke Thomas Musgrave John Lamb Gilbert Elliot Francis Pigou Basil Wynne Willson Edward Burroughs Henry de Candole Harry Blackburne Evered Lunt Douglas Harrison Horace Dammers Wesley Carr Robert Grimley David Hoyle Mandy Ford

v t e Bishops of Chester
John Bird George Cotes Cuthbert Scott William Downham William Chaderton Hugh Bellot Richard Vaughan George Lloyd Thomas Morton John Bridgeman Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Brian Walton Henry Ferne George Hall John Wilkins John Pearson Thomas Cartwright Nicholas Stratford Sir William Dawes Francis Gastrell Samuel Peploe Edmund Keene William Markham Beilby Porteus William Cleaver Henry Majendie Bowyer Sparke George Henry Law Charles James Blomfield John Bird Sumner John Graham William Jacobson William Stubbs Francis Jayne Luke Paget Geoffrey Fisher Douglas Crick Gerald Ellison Victor Whitsey Michael Baughen Peter Forster Keith Sinclair (Acting) Mark Tanner

Bishops of Chester

v t e Bishops of Ely
High Medieval	Hervey le Breton Nigel Geoffrey Ridel William de Longchamp Eustace Robert of York John of Fountains Geoffrey de Burgh Hugh of Northwold William of Kilkenny Hugh de Balsham John Kirkby William of Louth John Salmon/John Langton Ralph Walpole
Late Medieval	Robert Orford John Ketton John Hotham Simon Montacute Thomas de Lisle Simon Langham John Barnet Thomas Arundel John Fordham Philip Morgan Lewis of Luxembourg Thomas Bourchier William Grey John Morton John Alcock
Early modern	Richard Redman James Stanley Nicholas West Thomas Goodrich Thomas Thirlby Richard Cox Martin Heton Lancelot Andrewes Nicholas Felton John Buckeridge Francis White Matthew Wren Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Matthew Wren Benjamin Lany Peter Gunning Francis Turner Simon Patrick John Moore William Fleetwood Thomas Green Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Matthias Mawson Edmund Keene James Yorke
Late modern	Thomas Dampier Bowyer Sparke Joseph Allen Thomas Turton Harold Browne James Woodford Lord Alwyne Compton Frederic Chase Leonard White-Thomson Bernard Heywood Edward Wynn Noel Hudson Edward Roberts Peter Walker Stephen Sykes Anthony Russell Stephen Conway

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