Edmund Bowyer (died 1681)
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Sir Edmund Bowyer was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons
House of Commons of England
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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
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
Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)
Gatton was a parliamentary borough in Surrey, one of the most notorious of all the rotten boroughs. It elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1450 until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act...

 in the Convention Parliament.

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