INVENTOR OF BOWLER HATS
Remembrance, if not actual fame, has survived Thomas Bowler, a hatter who carried on his business across London Bridge, in the borough. We still wear the bowler hat. Bowler was the first maker of this particular headgear, but it was William Coke, a nephew of Coke of Norfolk, who maybe said to have made it known bywearing it at the great shooting parties at Holkham. From "Billy" Coke it derives its second name of billycock hat.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 26, 30 July 1938, Page 15
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80INVENTOR OF BOWLER HATS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 26, 30 July 1938, Page 15
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