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Richard Bower (died 1561) was Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal from 1545 to 1561, serving under four monarchs—Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

By 1524 he was singing in the chapel of Thomas Wolsey, becoming a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal by 1538.

A "tragical comedy" play, Apius and Virginia is attributed to him.

Bower was the father-in-law of Richard Farrant, and an associate of Thomas Tallis who was an overseer of his will. He was buried in St Alfege Church, Greenwich.

References

1. ^ Ross W. Duffin (2018). Some Other Note: The Lost Songs of English Renaissance Comedy. Oxford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780190856601.
2. Cambridge History of English Literature 6, Part 2: The Drama to 1642. Cambridge University Press. 1969. ISBN 9780521045209.
3. John Harley (2015). Thomas Tallis. Routledge. ISBN 9781472428066.
4. David Hughson (1808). London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood to Thirty Miles Extent from an Actual Perambulation: Volume 5. p. 111.

Further reading

• Charles William Wallace (1912). The evolution of English drama up to Shakespeare. Georg Reimer, Publisher and Printer, Berlin. pp. 69–78. ISBN 9783111651774.

External links

• 1575 edition of Apius and Virginia at archive.org
• Apius and Virginia at WorldCat

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