Roger Bowen

Victorian Physician Roger Bowen

The story of Dr John Howard Norton richly deserves to be told. He was one of those very rare people who deserve the epithet polymath. After a busy period as a GP he was a pioneer in the treatment of lunacy who opened a lunatic asylum in the old Amroth Castle and joined the family firms working in the brewing industry and in the operation of the Crosshands Colliery in Wales.