The Right Honourable The Lord Denham MC DL
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 forBuckingham
In office 14 December 1918 – 11 June 1937
Preceded by	Sir Harry Verney
Succeeded by	John Whiteley
Member of theHouse of Lords
Lord Temporal
as ahereditary peer 11 June 1937 – 30 November 1948
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 (16 January 1886 – 30 November 1948), was a BritishConservative Party politician.

Bowyer was educated atEton andNew College, Oxford, and wascalled to the bar in 1910. During World War I he served in theOxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, achieved the rank ofcaptain, and was awarded theMilitary Cross in the1917 New Year Honours.^[1]

He was active in local government and was president of theUrban District Councils Association. At the1918 general election he was elected asMember of Parliament (MP) forBuckingham. He served as awhip for many years. He was vice-chair of the Conservative Party and becameComptroller of the Household in 1935.

Bowyer wasknighted in 1929 and made abaronet, of Weston Underwood,Olney,Buckinghamshire, in 1933. He was appointed adeputy lieutenant of the county of Buckingham in 1931.^[2] In 1937 he was createdBaron Denham, also of Weston Underwood, Olney, Buckinghamshire.

He was elected as Senior Steward of theNational Greyhound Racing Club and was the guest of honour whenOxford Stadium opened in 1939.^[3][4]

Bowyer marriedthe Hon. Daphne Freeman-Mitford, daughter ofBertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, on 27 February 1919. They had three children:

• Hon. Richard Laurence Grenville Bowyer (17 February 1920 – 29 January 1943),killed in action duringWorld War II
• Hon. Peggy Bowyer (18 May 1925 – 17 February 2024), married David Repard (1921–2011), Royal Navy officer
• Hon. Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, known as "Bertie", later the 2nd Baron Denham (3 October 1927 – 1 December 2021)

Coat of arms of George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham

Crest A falcon rising belled Or. Escutcheon Or a bend Vaire cottised Sable. Supporters Dexter a golden retriever sinister a black greyhound Proper each charged on the shoulder with a portcullis Or.[5]

• Burke's Peerage & Gentry; andHons & Cousins by F. J. Mitford, 2006.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages^{[self-published source][better source needed]}
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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

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