George Bowyer, 7th Baronet

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Sir George Bowyer, 7th Baronet (born October 8, 1811 in Radley near Abingdon (Oxfordshire) , † June 7, 1883 in London ) was a British lawyer and politician .

Life

George Bowyer came from a family who settled at Denham Court in Buckinghamshire in the early 17th century . In June 1660, the head of the family, Sir William Bowyer, 1st Baronet , was raised to baronet by King Charles II . The 7th Baronet was born in 1811 on the country estate of his father, British politician Sir George Bowyer, 6th Baronet , in Radley. His mother Anne Hammond was a daughter of Captain Sir Andrew Snape Douglas. His grandfather, Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet , served as Admiral in the Royal Navy .

Bowyer was initially intended for a military career and therefore attended the Royal Military Academy Woolwich as a cadet for some time . Since he was more interested in law, he studied law at the Middle Temple from June 1836 and was admitted to the bar on June 7, 1839. Five days later he was made an Honorary Master of Arts from the University of Oxford . He then practiced as a property lawyer. On June 20, 1844, Oxford University awarded him an honorary doctorate in private law for his writing of meritorious legal works . He later served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire .

In July 1849, Bowyer, who also aspired to a political career, ran unsuccessfully for Reading for a seat in Parliament . In 1850 he became a teacher at the Middle Temple School of Law and published his lectures there. Also in 1850 he converted from Anglican Protestantism to the Roman Catholic Church . When Pope Pius IX. divided England into Catholic dioceses to the annoyance of British Protestants in the fall of 1850 , Bowyer was chosen to defend this act and published the pamphlet The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and the New Hierarchy , which quickly saw four editions. From then on he was the champion of Catholicism in England for the rest of his life.

From July 1852 to December 1868, Bowyer represented the Irish constituency of Dundalk as a Member of the British Parliament. As a politician, he campaigns for ultra-montane interests in parliament. After the death of his father, he followed him on July 1, 1860 in the dignity of a baronet. When the pope in the wake of the Italian unification movement deprived initially went the majority of its territory and in 1870 also the rest of the Papal States lost, denounced Bowyer along with John Pope Hennessy , John Francis Maguire , among others in Parliament, the Italian Revolutionary so at every opportunity to, as is the atrocities committed by the soldiers of Viktor Emanuel II in the recently annexed Neapolitan Empire. Bowyer also consistently held Lord Palmerston and other British politicians who acted as accomplices to the Italian revolutionaries accountable.

After Bowyer failed in his candidacy for a seat in Parliament for Dundalk in December 1868, he was elected again in December 1874 under the Irish Home Rule interest, this time for County Wexford . He remained in this position until March 1880. During the last five years of his political career he became estranged from the Liberal Party , partly because of his stance on the Italian question, and was finally expelled from the Reform Club on June 23, 1876 . His numerous letters to the Times related primarily to religious and constitutional issues.

Bowyer, who had not married, was found dead on the morning of June 7, 1883, in the bed of his office at number 13 on King's Bench Walk in central London; he was 71 years old. The funeral service took place in the Roman Catholic Church of St. John of Jerusalem , which he had built in London's Great Ormond Street . His younger brother followed him as a baronet. Among other things, he had been a knight of the Order of Malta .

Works

  • A Dissertation on the Statutes of the Cities of Italy, and a Translation of the Pleading of Prospero Farinacio in Defense of Beatrice Cenci , with Notes , London 1838
  • The English Constitution, a Popular Commentary on the Constitutional Laws of England , 1841
  • Commentaries on the Modern Civil Law , London 1848
  • Two readings delivered in the Middle Temple Hall , London 1850
  • Commentaries on the Universal Public Law , London 1854
  • The Private History of the Creation of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England , London 1868
  • Introduction to the Study and Use of the Civil Law, and to Commentaries on the Modern Civil Law , London 1874

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bowyer, George, 7th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Radley at Abingdon, Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1883
Place of death London