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Lieutenant-Colonel George Robert Harland Bowden (1873 – 10 October 1927) was a British mechanical engineer and Conservative Party politician.

Born in Durham, at the age of 15 he was apprenticed to Lambton Collieries whilst attending classes at Durham College of Science.^[1]^[2]

In 1890 he moved to South Wales as improver for the ironworks at Tondu. In 1891 he became assistant engineer and chief draughtsman at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil.^[1] He returned to North East England in 1896 as manager of D Selby Bigge and Company, an engineering company based in Newcastle. In 1902 he founded his own company, G Harland Bowden and Company, consulting engineers of Victoria Street, London. The firm specialised in the design and installation of colliery and factory plants.^[1] In 1908 he became a Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.^[1]

In 1907 Bowden was granted a Volunteer Force commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery.^[3]^[7]

Bowden was active in Conservative Party politics, and in April 1912 was adopted as the party's prospective candidate for the parliamentary constituency of North East Derbyshire.^[4] In April 1914 the sitting Labour Party member of parliament for North East Derbyshire died, causing a by-election.^[5] The by-election was held on 20 May, and Bowden was elected to the Commons, gaining the seat for the Conservatives with a majority of 314 votes.^[6] During World War I Bowden became commanding officer of 17th (Empire) Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers, a war-formed unit.^[7] He continued to hold his parliamentary seat during the war, but found himself estranged from the Conservative Party, going so far as to issue libel proceedings against a party official. At the 1918 general election he defended his seat as an Independent Conservative, opposed by a Conservative candidate who had the support of the Coalition Government.^[8] He lost his seat to the Liberal candidate, finishing in third place. In October 1919 he was awarded 125 pounds in damages for libel against the vice-chairman of the North East Derbyshire Unionist Association.^[9] By the time of the 1924 general election Bowden had repaired his ties to the Conservatives, and stood as the party's candidate in North East Derbyshire once more.^[10] He was unsuccessful, with the Labour Party holding the seat.^[11]

He died suddenly at his home, "Rodney", Belmont Hill, St Albans in October 1927, aged 64.^[12]^[13]

References

1. ^¹²³{{cite web|title=1927 Obituary|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/George_Robert_Harland_Bowden|work=Grace's Guide|accessdate=4 April 2014}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=If I Could Begin Again|author=Robert Harland Bowden|date=2 January 1920|page=4|newspaper=Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84034747}}
3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=28087|date=9 December 1907|page=8610}}
4. ^{{cite news|title=Debyshire (North-East)|newspaper=The times|date=29 April 1912|page=6}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Three-Cornered Fight In Derbyshire|newspaper=The Times|date=8 May 1914|page=5}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Unionist Gain In Derbyshire|date=21 May 1914|page=8|newspaper=The Times}}
7. ^{{cite book|title=The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War|author=H C O'Neill|publisher=William Heinemann|year=1922|page=13|url=https://archive.org/stream/royalfusiliersin00onei#page/12/mode/2up}}
8. ^{{cite news|title=Election Items|date=10 December 1918|page=10|newspaper=The Times}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=High Court Of Justice|date=18 October 1919|page=4|newspaper=The Times}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=The General Election. Nominations|date=20 October 1924|page=7|newspaper=The Times}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=General Election, 1924.-Full Polling Results|newspaper=The Times|date=31 October 1924}}
12. ^¹{{cite news|title=Deaths|date=11 October 1927|newspaper=The Times|page=1}}
13. ^{{London Gazette|issue=33392|page=3986|date=8 June 1928}}

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