Robert Steuart Bowers [also known as R. Steuart Bowers, and as R.S. Bowers] was born in Camberwell, Surrey [now London], England in c.1889. Nothing is known about his training as an architect. In c.1918, with Ewart Gladstone Culpin (1877-1946), he formed the Richmond, Surrey, England-based architectural partnership Culpin & Bowers. During the 1920s and 1930s they were known for their public housing projects. The partnership was dissolved in 1935 and Culpin formed a new partnership, Ewart Culpin & Son, with his son, Clifford Ewart Culpin (1904-1988).
Bowers was the author of 'Drawing and Design for Craftsmen' (London: Cassell, 1916, which contains "about 770 illustrations by the author and at least thirty other artists".
Bowers' address was given as 15 Playfield Crescent, East Dulwich in 1911. He died in London on 1 November 1943