Background
He was the son of Admiral Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet and his second wife Henrietta Brett, daughter of Admiral Sir Piercy Brett, and was born at Radley Hall in Berkshire. In 1800, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
He was the son of Admiral Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet and his second wife Henrietta Brett, daughter of Admiral Sir Piercy Brett, and was born at Radley Hall in Berkshire. In 1800, he succeeded his father as baronet.
Bowyer was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1804 and a Master of Arts in 1807.
He sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1807 and 1818, first as a Tory and then as a Whig. He returned to Parliament the following year as a Whig, when he was elected at an unopposed by-election in June 1811 as the Member of Parliament for Abingdon, following the resignation of Henry Bowyer. He was re-elected in 1812, defeating his Tory opponent by a margin of 112 votes to 11, and held the seat until the 1818 general election.
In 1815, financial difficulties forced him to sell the contents of Radley Hall.
Bowyer died at Dresden in Germany, but was buried at Radley.
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At the 1807 general election, Bowyer was elected in the Tory interest as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Malmesbury, a seat which he held until his resignation in 1810 by appointment as Steward of the Manor of East Hendred.