Sir Edmund Bowyer was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  in 1660.

Bowyer was the son of Benjamin Bowyer of Surrey. He succeeded to the estates of his uncle Sir Edmund Bowyer

Edmund Bowyer (died 1627)

Sir Edmund Bowyer was an English lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1624....

 of Camberwell in 1627. He was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge

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 on 5 March1630. He was knighted by Charles I at Dunfermline on 4 July 1633, being then "of Camberwell".

In 1660, Bowyer was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Gatton

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 in the Convention Parliament.

Bowyer died at the age of 67 and was commemorated on a monument at Camberwell Church.