Sir Henry Bowles, 1st Baronet

Who was Sir Henry Bowles, 1st Baronet?

Colonel Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles, 1st Baronet, was a British military officer and Conservative politician.

He was the eldest son of Henry Carrington Bowles Bowles of Myddelton House, Bulls Cross, Hertfordshire and Cornelia née Kingdom. He was educated at Harrow School and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1881 and a master of arts in 1884. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1883. He married Florence "Dolly" Broughton of Tunstall Hall, Shropshire in 1889. In 1895 he moved to Forty Hall, near Enfield, Middlesex, which his father had purchased in the previous year. His younger brother Gussie was the distinguished horticulturalist E.A. Bowles.