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Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet

Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet

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Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet (29 June 1612 – 2 October 1679), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.

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Bowyer was the eldest son of Sir Henry Bowyer and his wife Anne Salter, daughter of Sir Nicholas Salter,[1] and was baptised at St Olave's Church, Hart Street, London.

He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.[2] In 1630, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn. Bowyer was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire between 1646 and 1647 and a Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckinghamshire from 1659 until 1679.[3] Having been a Royalist before the Restoration, he was knighted by June 1660,[3] and afterwards made a Baronet, of Denham, in the County of Buckingham by King Charles II of England on 25 June 1660.[4]

On 29 May 1634, he married Margaret Weld, daughter of Sir John Weld at St Olave's Church, Old Jewry, London. They had three sons and several daughters.[5] Bowyer died intestate, aged 67, and was buried at Denham.[5] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son William.[5]

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    Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 134.
  2. [2]
    "Bowyer, William (BWR628W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. [3]
    History of Parliament Online – Bowyer, William
  4. [4]
    Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (fifth ed.). London: G. Woodfall. pp. 221–222.
  5. [5]
    Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. II. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 41.
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