Timothy Charles Bowles is a British

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politician who was the inaugural

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serving from 2017 to 2021. He was previously elected as a local councillor in 2010 and 2015 for Winterbourne in

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, where he lives. He was an events company manager for rth plc. On 24 November 2020 Bowles announced his decision not to run for re-election in the 2021 West of England mayoral election, as he was retiring to "pursue some other interests and do those things which have had to take a back seat for so many years". At Bowles' final

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meeting, Bristol mayor

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said that Bowles had shown honourable leadership without “nonsense party wrangling”. Bowles lives in Winterbourne, and previously in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowles, Tim Conservative Party (UK) mayors Living people Mayors of the West of England People from Winterbourne, Gloucestershire Year of birth missing (living people)