Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Denham | |
Office4: | Member of Parliament for Buckingham |
Term Start4: | 14 December 1918 |
Term End4: | 11 June 1937 |
Predecessor4: | Sir Harry Verney |
Successor4: | John Whiteley |
Office3: | Comptroller of the Household |
Primeminister3: | Stanley Baldwin |
Term Start3: | 21 June 1935 |
Term End3: | 6 December 1935 |
Predecessor3: | Victor Warrender |
Successor3: | Sir Lambert Ward |
Office6: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start6: | 11 June 1937 |
Term End6: | 30 November 1948 as a hereditary peer |
Predecessor6: | Peerage created |
Successor6: | The 2nd Baron Denham |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1886 |
Party: | Conservative |
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, (16 January 1886 – 30 November 1948), was a British Conservative Party politician.
Bowyer was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1910. During World War I he served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, achieved the rank of Captain, and was awarded the Military Cross in the 1917 New Year Honours.
Bowyer was active in local government and was president of the Urban District Councils Association. At the 1918 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham. He served as a whip for many years. He was vice-chair of the Conservative Party and became Comptroller of the Household in 1935.
Bowyer was knighted in 1929 and made a Baronet, of Weston Underwood, Olney, Buckinghamshire, in 1933. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Buckingham in 1931. In 1937 he was created 1st Baron Denham, also of Weston Underwood, Olney, Buckinghamshire.
He was elected as Senior Steward of the National Greyhound Racing Club and was the guest of honour when Oxford Stadium opened in 1939.[1] [2]
He married Daphne Mitford, daughter of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, on 27 February 1919. They had three children:
Escutcheon: | Or a bend Vaire cottised Sable. |
Crest: | A falcon rising belled Or. |
Supporters: | Dexter a golden retriever sinister a black greyhound Proper each charged on the shoulder with a portcullis Or.[3] |