Walter Bower

Abbot Walter Bower
Inchcolm Abbey
Personal details
Born	c. 1385 Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
Died	24 December 1449 (aged about 65)
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Canon regular and chronicler

Walter Bower (or Bowmaker; c. 1385 – 24 December 1449) was a Scottish canon regular and abbot of Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era. He was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian, in the Kingdom of Scotland.^[1] In 1991, Donald Watt said of Bower's Scotichronicon that "We are more and more convinced that this book is one of the national treasures of Scotland, which should be studied in depth for many different kinds of enquiry into Scotland's past."^[2]