Early Life
Laurence R. Bowen was born in 1965 in Kensington, London, to parents Trefor and Patricia Bowen (née Wilks). His father, a Harley Street orthopaedic surgeon, died of leukaemia in 1974, aged 42, when Laurence was just nine years of age. His mother, a teacher, died in 2002. He has a brother called Edward and a sister called Frances. He is of Welsh descent.
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