George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham explained

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.

Biography

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:

Arms

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]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "£22M. More Spent On Gambling Last Year." Times, 16 Feb. 1957, p. 4.. Times Digital Archives.
  2. Book: Genders, Roy. NGRC book of Greyhound Racing. 1990. Pelham Books Ltd. 0-7207-1804-X.
  3. Book: Debrett's Peerage . 2019 . 2318.