George Bowes (MP for County Durham)
Sir George Bowes (21 August 1701 – 17 September 1760) was an
George Bowes was baptized on 4 September 1701, the youngest son of Sir
Bowes was rich and influential, largely on account of the coal which lay beneath his estates. In 1726 he was a founder of the
Bowes was returned unopposed for Durham again at the 1754 British general election and was still considered an opposition Whig. He spoke on the Tory side during the debates on the Oxfordshire election petitions.[4]
Bowes married as his second wife Mary Gilbert on 14 June 1743/44 at St Botolph's, Aldersgate, City of London.[5] They had one daughter, Mary Eleanor Bowes, born 24 February 1748 (old style)/1749 (new style). She married John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who later took the name "Bowes", as a condition of the will of George Bowes, in order to inherit the Bowes estate.[6]
His principal residences were Gibside, a mansion on the banks of the River Derwent in County Durham, and Streatlam Castle, an estate close to the town of Barnard Castle, also in County Durham. The park surrounding Gibside includes a column, 140 feet high, dedicated to British liberty. On George Bowes' death in 1760, Gibside passed to his son-in-law, John Bowes, the 9th Earl of Strathmore. Lord Strathmore built a mausoleum chapel in the grounds, in Palladian style, in which Bowes was finally interred on its completion in 1812.
Bowes is the 7th great-grandfather of Charles III.
References
- ^ a b "BOWES, George (1701-60), of Streatlam Castle, Co. Dur". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ISBN 0-7546-0603-1
- ^ G.Sherburn, Walpole's marginalia in Additions To Pope, Huntingdon Library Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Jul., 1938), pp. 473-487, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815844#metadata_info_tab_contents
- ^ "BOWES, George (1701-60), of Streatlam Castle, co. Dur". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ marriage register 1725-1769, St. Botolph Church
- High Sheriff of Yorkshire (died 1580), for instance, married Timothy Hutton, also High Sheriff of Yorkshire, son and heir of Archbishop of York Matthew Hutton.[1] The Hutton estates, combined with those of the Bowes family, devolved eventually onto Mary Hutton, daughter of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury. The enormous estates Mary Hutton inherited, principally in Lincolnshire, were left to Col. Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard of Flintham, whose Bowes grandmother was cousin to Mary Hutton.[2] The sums involved set off a flurry of lawsuits, as well as bills in Parliament devoted to the infighting among the assorted claimants.[3]
Other Sources
Primary source materials
- Bowes family of Strathmore and Gibside. Durham County Record Office Catalogue reference D/St contains family and estate papers.