stanshall and slater then parted ways for a while but slater in particular kept faith in the band's continued existence and dedicated himself to its eventual resurrection. things began to come together again in 1963 when the two reunited with wilkes, and two new faces entered the picture: on banjo, double bass and later bass guitar, goldsmiths college lecturer vernon dudley bowhay-nowell and his lodger, songwriter/pianist and later guitarist neil innes. bowhay-nowell was already familiar with the band's earlier incarnation and happily came on board. according to innes' website, the bowhay-nowell was added to vernon dudley's name by stanshall, although this has proven to be untrue. vernon's parents were walter nowell and bessie bowhay. unwilling to lose the unusual 'bowhay' part of the name, they gave their children vernon dudley and peter the name 'bowhay' as an addendum to the surname 'nowell'. it seems unlikely, however, that the slightly older, slightly more conservative vernon had used such an affectation in his everyday life before stanshall's suggestion, which may be where the confusion arose.