George Bowes (boxer)
George Bowes may refer to: *George Bowes (MP for County Durham) (1701–1760, English member of parliament (MP) *George Bowes (soldier) (1527–1580), English military commander, MP for Morpeth and Knaresborough *George Bowes (rebel) (1517–1545), English commander in border warfare *George Bowes (prospector) (died 1606), prospected and mined for gold in Scotland See also

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George Bowes (MP For County Durham)
Sir George Bowes (21 August 1701 – 17 September 1760) was an English coal proprietor and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 33 years from 1727 to 1760. George Bowes was baptized on 4 September 1701, the youngest son of Sir William Bowes, MP, and Elizabeth Bowes (née Blakiston). The Bowes family had been prominent in County Durham, with their ownership of the estate and castle of Streatlam but in 1713, George's father acquired (from his wife's family) the Gibside estate which included some of the area's richest coal seams and led to the family becoming immensely wealthy through the coal trade. George Bowes inherited the family estates in 1721, including Gibside. Although he was the youngest son, his elder brothers had died young. In October 1724 he married the fourteen-year-old Eleanor Verney, but she died in December of that year. Her death was commemorated in a poem, written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Horace Walpole, years later, implied that she had died ...
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