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

House of Commons of England

The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

  variously between 1614 and 1641.

Bowyer was the son of Sir John Bowyer of Knipersley Staffordshire.

Bowyer was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Staffordshire

Staffordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Staffordshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832...

 in 1614 and was re-elected for the seat in 1621, 1624 and 1626. In April 1640, he was re-elected MP for Staffordshire in the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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 but died at the beginning of 1641.

Bowyer married Hester Skeffington, daughter of Sir William Skeffington of Fisherwick, Staffordshire. Their son John

Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet was a 17th-century English soldier and politician.Bowyer was the son of Sir William Bowyer, a wealthy Staffordshire landowner of Knypersley Hall, near Biddulph....

 became and MP and baronet

Bowyer Baronets

There have been five Baronetcies created for members of the Bowyer family, three in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Three of the titles are extinct while the remaining extant baronetcies have been united in one holder...

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