After the war he retired to his farm near Gower, Missouri and was noted to deny many of his pro-slavery public statements made prior to the Civil War.

The population resides mainly in villages and small communities, though suburban development has made a number of communities in eastern Gower part of the Swansea Urban Area.

In 1535 the Act of Union made the Lordship of Gower part of the historic county of Glamorgan, and its south-western section became the hundred of Swansea.

A film, Gower Boy, made by artist Gee Vaucher and musician Huw Warren, described as a " gentle, contemplative exploration of the Gower Peninsula in Wales ", debuted at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in October 2006.

Vaucher's film Gower Boy, made in collaboration with pianist Huw Warren, debuted at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in London in October 2006 .< ref >

Gower made the school cricket First XI aged 14 and he would later be made captain.

Lloyd made 90 in the second innings as Lancashire declared on 305, with Gower taking one catch to dismiss Jack Simmons for 17.

Batting at number four, he made a farewell century of 134 before he was stumped in the first innings, and with future captain Nasser Hussain and then captain Graham Gooch both making centuries as Essex fell short of Hampshire's 347 with their own innings of 268, Gower came out to bat fo the final time in Hampshire's second innings.

Opening the batting, Gower made only 10 runs in the first innings as England were bowled out for 164, however after the West Indies had made 201 Gower fell short with 49 in the second innings, stumped off a spin bowler.

Gower made his Ashes début at The Gabba, Brisbane on 1 December 1978.

In August 1982, however, Australia received the England touring team at Perth, where Gower made 72 and 28.

John made a claim to being the rightful heir of the de Braose lands and titles and although the courts did not find for him, his other uncle Reginald de Braose was able to cede by a legal convention the Baronies of both Gower and Bramber to him for a fee.

In the First Test at Headingley Dexter selected four fast bowlers and no spinners for the team, advised Gower to put Australia in to bat, only to see them made 601 / 7 and win by 210 runs.

The lackadaisical Gower was fired at the end of the summer and the more professional Graham Gooch was made captain until 1993, despite Dexter having called his previous appointment as captain as " being hit in the face by a dead fish ".

In 1317, William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose petitioned King Edward II, the King's Council, and the Parliament to request that Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March send two justices to arrest and bring to trial 200 – 300 men he accused of attacking his Knights and Ministers and for, " trespasses made against the King's peace to Brewose and his people of Gower.

Efforts were made by the local authority to reduce the pollution in the Bay but care had to be taken to ensure the pollution did not move to the popular beach resorts in south Gower instead.

He made several expeditions into Gower during the following decade.

It starred Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Ann Miller, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, was made in Technicolor and reuniting four members of the previous year's Show Boat ( 1951 film ) ( Grayson, Keel and the two Champions ).

In the early 1950s, Marge and Gower Champion made seven film musicals: Mr. Music ( 1950, with Bing Crosby ), the 1951 remake of Show Boat ( with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson ), 1952's Lovely to Look At ( a remake of Roberta, also with Keel and Grayson ), the autobiographical Everything I Have Is Yours ( 1952 ), Give a Girl a Break ( 1953, with Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse ), Jupiter's Darling ( 1955, with Keel and Esther Williams ), and Three for the Show ( 1955, with Betty Grable and Jack Lemmon ).

In 1987 Gower declined to play in that year's Cricket World Cup as he did not wish to travel, having been on nine successive winter tours since his debut.

* 1 June-Test cricket debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, scores 58.

He made his One Day International debut – extraordinarily as captain – in the absence of David Gower who was being rested, at the age of 44 in the 1984 / 85 ' Rothmans Four-Nations Cup ' contest in Sharjah.

Born in Limpsfield, Surrey, Tony Lock had the weighty backing of HDG Leveson Gower and made his first-class debut for Surrey County Cricket Club at just seventeen years old in 1946, but did not play regularly for his county until 1949.

English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

* Gower, Calvin W. " The CCC Indian Division: Aid for Depressed Americans, 1933-1942 ," Minnesota History 43 ( Spring 1972 ) 7-12

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

On the Monday morning 500 – 1 odds began to look somewhat more ungenerous as first Brearley, then David Gower and Mike Gatting all fell cheaply reducing England to 41 for 4.

Roman rule in Wales was a military occupation, save for the southern coastal region of South Wales east of the Gower Peninsula, where there is a legacy of Romanisation.

He had a particular love of the Gower Peninsula, which he had explored extensively in his youth and which, following the purchase of a holiday cottage in Llanmadoc, became a regular holiday retreat for the Jones family.

* Transit ( ship ), the name given to the three sailing vessels designed and built for Captain Richard Hall Gower

About in area, Gower is known for its coastline, popular with walkers and outdoor enthusiasts, especially surfers.

In 1203 King John ( 1199 – 1216 ) granted the Lordship of Gower to William III de Braose ( d. 1211 ) for the service of one knight's fee.

* The official tourism website for Swansea, Mumbles and Gower

Local council elections for Gower were held on 3 May 2012, along with wards in 21 / 22 local authorities in Wales.

The turn-out for Gower was 47. 51 %.

* David Gower, former England cricketer and current cricket commentator for Sky Sports was educated for a time in Quorn, at the Old Primary School

After receiving his only royalty check from Capitol in 1970 for songs he had written for People !, Norman moved from the " rat-hole " apartment at Gower Street and established a half-way house on North Beachwood Drive, Hollywood, where he " housed and fed various groups of people, supervised their Bible studies and drove them to church on Fridays and Sundays ".

David Ivon Gower OBE ( born 1 April 1957 ) is a former English cricketer who became a commentator for Sky Sports.

Gower was briefly reinstated for the 1989 Ashes series, before being replaced as captain by Graham Gooch.

At the time his father, Richard Gower OBE, was working for the Colonial Service in a position in Dar es Salaam, capital of the then British administered territory of Tanganyika, where Gower spent his early childhood.

While at school, Gower would play representative cricket for Public Schools against English Schools at under-16 level.

Having played some matches for the Leicestershire Second XI the previous summer, Gower tried his luck at the club as a professional for the remainder of the year, for £ 25 per week.