George Frederic Stewart Bowles (17 November 1877 – 1 January 1955) was a British Conservative Party politician and barrister. Bowles was born on 17 November 1877, the son of

Thomas Gibson Bowles Thomas Gibson Bowles (15 January 1841 – 12 January 1922) was a British politician and publisher. He founded the magazines '' The Lady'' and '' Vanity Fair'', and became a Member of Parliament in 1892. He was also the maternal grandfather o ...

of London, an MP and the founder of the magazines '' The Lady'' and '' Vanity Fair''. He was educated at Farnborough School, Hampshire, before entering the Royal Navy in 1891. He resigned his Commission in 1897 and went to

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

, where he graduated BA in 1901 and MA in 1905. While at Cambridge he was President of the

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. He was admitted to the

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in 1898, and called to the Bar in 1901 whereupon he practised in the

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for a few years. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwood from 1906 to 1910. Bowles married Madeline Mary Tobin (born in 1893 at

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) in 1922; they had two children. He died in Malta on 1 January 1955.

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* 1877 births 1955 deaths UK MPs 1906–1910 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub