William Bowyer (MP)

Sir William Bowyer (c. 1588 – 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1620 and 1641.

For the Captain of Berwick, see William Bowyer (died 1627).

Bowyer was the son of Sir John Bowyer of Knipersley Staffordshire.[1] He became wealthy from coal and iron mines at Biddulph and Tunstall.[2]

Bowyer was elected Member of Parliament for Staffordshire in 1621 and was re-elected for the seat in 1624 and 1626. In April 1640 he was re-elected MP for Staffordshire in the Short Parliament and again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament, but died at the beginning of 1641.[3]

Bowyer married Hester Skeffington, daughter of Sir William Skeffington of Fisherwick, Staffordshire. Their son John became an MP and baronet.[4]

References
  1. John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  2. Penkridge Parliamentary History
  3. Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  4. Basil Duke Henning The House of Commons, 1660-1690
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