Bishop Francis Herman Gow was born in Cape Town 29 September 1887 . He became the 74th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Francis Herman Gow completed both his primary- and secondary education in District Six, Cape Town. He left South Africa in 1904 to further his studies in America. He returned to South Africa to become principal of the Wilberforce Theological School in Johannesburg. On his return to Cape Town in 1934 he served at Bethel Memorial AME Church in District Six, Cape Town. His father, Francis McDonald Gow, was a West-Indian citizen who immigrated to South Africa in the early 1880’s. Gow (Sr.) moved to District Six, Cape Town, where he became a full time photographer. When the AME Church was organised in District Six, Cape Town in 1898, Gow Sr. became a member. He was subsequently ordained as a minister of the AME Church and assigned as the second Pastor of Bethel Memorial in District Six. Until his death in 1931 Francis M Gow served for about tw...