Tom Bower Tom Bower Thomas Michael Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorized biographies, often of business tycoons and newspaper proprietors. His books include unauthorised biographies of Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Conrad Black, and Richard Branson. A book about Richard Desmond remains unpublished. His book, "", won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Bower's parents were Jewish refugees who fled Prague after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and arrived in London later that same year. After attending the William Ellis School in Hampstead, Bower studied
Louisa Nott-Bower attended an international women's meeting in Washington D. C., and lectured on women's rights in the United States. In 1924 Lady Nott-Bower spoke at a conference on moral welfare organised by the National Council of Women. Her talk concerned "the problem of sexual offences against children, and suggested certain new lines of action in the case both of the offender and the victim". Yorke was married to Sir Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, a barrister, and they had a son, Reginald Ernest Nott-Bower. William Nott-Bower was her brother-in-law. Louisa died in London in 1925, age 64. Louisa Nott-Bower Louisa Adelaide Nott-Bower, née