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The Lord Denham
MC DL
Lord Dennam.jpg
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
as a hereditary peer
Preceded by Peerage created
Succeeded by The 2nd Baron Denham
Personal details
Born (1886-01-16)16 January 1886
Died 30 November 1948(1948-11-30) (aged 62)
Political party Conservative

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

Biography

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:

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.

He was a Captain awarded with the Military Cross and a Deputy Lieutenant.

Bowyer was knighted in 1929 and made a Baronet, of Weston Underwood, Olney, Buckinghamshire, in 1933. 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.

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