| 词条 | Charles Bowden (politician) |
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Charles Moore Bowden (1886 – 10 July 1972) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. Biography{{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=right}}{{NZ parlbox|start = {{NZ election link year|1943}} |end = 1946 |term = 27th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Wellington West}} |party = New Zealand National Party }}{{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1946}} |end = 1949 |term = 28th |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Karori}} |party = New Zealand National Party }}{{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1949}} |end = 1951 |term = 29th |electorate = Karori |party = New Zealand National Party }}{{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1951}} |end = 1954 |term = 30th |electorate = Karori |party = New Zealand National Party }}{{NZ parlbox footer}} Bowden was born in Dunedin in 1886. He received his education at Auckland Grammar School. After school, he was briefly with an auctioneering firm before joining Kempthorne Prosser. When his family moved to Wellington, he joined W.M. Bannatyne and Co, where he moved into accounting. He became self-employed and established the accountancy firm Bowden, Bass and Cox in 1923. In the same year, he was president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, and afterwards president of the Wellington branch of the Chamber of Commerce (1924–1925). For almost a decade, he was chairman and managing director of Wairarapa Farmers in Masterton (1927–1936), and he was a director of Bannatyne and Co.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=301}} In 1941 Bowden was elected to the Wellington City Council serving one term.[1] He represented the Wellington West electorate in Parliament from {{NZ election link year|1943}} to 1946, and then the Karori electorate from {{NZ election link year|1946}} to 1954, when he retired.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=184}} He was a cabinet minister in the First National Government. He was Minister of Customs (1949–1954), Minister of Industries and Commerce (1949–1950), and Minister of Stamp Duties (1949–1952).{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=86}} In 1955, Bowden was granted the use of the title of "Honourable" for life, having served more than three years as a member of the Executive Council.[2] In May 1955 he was appointed chairman of the Ross Sea Committee to organise New Zealand participation in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Bowden Glacier lying on the southeast flank of Salient Ridge that flows northeast to Blue Glacier, Victoria Land, was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994 for Bowden during Sir Edmund Hillary's South Pole Expedition, part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957. He was appointed director of the Bank of New Zealand and chairman of Heritage New Zealand.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=301}} Bowden died on 10 July 1972.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=301}} Notes1. ^{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19410519.2.105.4 |work =Evening Post |page=9 |title=New City Council |date=19 May 1941 |accessdate=27 October 2016 | volume=CXXXI | issue=116 }} 2. ^{{London Gazette | issue=40421 | date=1 March 1955 | page=1269}} References
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