1. He was christened Arthur Lyon because his mother admired Tennyson’s ‘King Arthur’ and Lyon was a paternal family name. See A. Bowley, A Memoir of Professor Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869–1957) and his Family (privately printed, 1970) for a detailed and fascinating account of the Bowley family. [Hereafter cited as ALB.]
2. F. A. Burchardt and G. D. N. Worswick, ‘Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley’, Bulletin of the Oxford Institute of Statistics, XIX (1957) 1–2, at p. 2.
3. The earliest reference to the ‘law’ (which refers to the alleged constancy of the wage share in national income) of which I know is P. A. Samuelson, Economics, 6th edn (London: McGraw-Hill, 1964) p. 736. It is interesting to note that Samuelson does not use the expression ‘Bowley’s Law’ in any of the first five editions of the book.
4. See N. Jha, The Age of Marshall, 2nd edn (London: Frank Cass, 1973) who writes: ‘One can observe the typically Marshallian concepts of the normal and market price behind these statistical investigations’ (p. 113).
5. It is interesting to note that Bowley’s 1898 EJ article does not appear in the bibliography given by R. G. D. Allen and R. F. George, ‘Professor Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley’, JRSS, CXX (1957) 236–41. This is, no doubt, because the index of the 1898 EJ records a contribution by Dowley.