Gerald Bowden
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Gerald Francis Bowden (26 August 1935 – 7 January 2020) was a British Conservative MP, who represented Dulwich from 1983 until 1992. He was defeated by future Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell in the 1992 general election.
Career
He was an honours graduate in Jurisprudence from Magdalen College, Oxford; was called to the bar at Gray's Inn and qualified as a chartered surveyor at the College of Estate Management, practising part-time in these professions. Commissioned during National Service he continued to serve in the Territorial Army, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He held an academic appointment as a principal lecturer in the law of property at London South Bank University (formerly South Bank Polytechnic) from 1971 to 1984.
Gerald Bowden represented Dulwich on the Greater London Council from 1977 to 1981.
He was MP for Dulwich from 1983 until 1992. On leaving Parliament he took up an academic appointment at Kingston University and resumed practice at the planning bar.
He was a trustee of the Royal Albert Hall, and was previously Chairman of the Dulwich Estate (Alleyn's College of God's Gift) and the Walcot Foundation, a trustee of the Magdalen College Development Trust, and the Oxford and Cambridge Club.
Personal life
Bowden's daughter Emma died when the seaplane she was travelling in crashed into Cowan Creek, north of Sydney, on New Year's Eve, 2017. Emma was killed along with her fiancé Richard Cousins, her daughter, and Cousins's two sons.[1]
References
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- ↑ "Ex-Tory MP father of seaplane victim tells of his grief" p 13 The Daily Telegraph Issue no 50,580 dated Wednesday 03 January 2018
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Sources
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1992
- Hansard
- Who's Who
External links
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- 2020 deaths
- 1935 births
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Members of the Greater London Council
- UK MPs 1983–1987
- UK MPs 1987–1992
- Politics of the London Borough of Southwark
- Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Alumni of University College of Estate Management
- Academics of London South Bank University
- Members of Gray's Inn