George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham

Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham MC DL (16 January 1886 – 30 November 1948), was a British Conservative Party politician.

The Right Honourable The Lord Denham
Comptroller of the Household
In office 21 June 1935 – 6 December 1935
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Victor Warrender
Succeeded by	Sir Lambert Ward
Member of Parliament for Buckingham
In office 14 December 1918 – 11 June 1937
Preceded by	Sir Harry Verney
Succeeded by	John Whiteley
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 11 June 1937 – 30 November 1948 Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Baron Denham
Personal details
Born	16 January 1886
Died	30 November 1948 (aged 62)
Political party	Conservative

Bowyer was educated at Eton and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1910. He married Daphne Mitford, daughter of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, on 27 February 1919. They had three children:

1. The Hon. Richard Laurence Grenville Bowyer (17 February 1920 – 29 January 1943), killed during World War II.
2. The Hon. Peggy Bowyer (b. 18 May 1925).
3. Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham (b. 3 October 1927), known as "Bertie".

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 in 1933. In 1937 he was created 1st Baron Denham, 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]

References

1. ""£22M. More Spent On Gambling Last Year." Times, 16 Feb. 1957, p. 4". Times Digital Archives.
2. Genders, Roy (1990). NGRC book of Greyhound Racing. Pelham Books Ltd. ISBN 0-7207-1804-X.

• Burke's Peerage & Gentry; and Hons & Cousins by F. J. Mitford, 2006.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Bowyer