Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (4 April 1870 – 9 March 1943) was a British peer and composer. Fowler was born at

Tettenhall Tettenhall is a historic village within the City of Wolverhampton, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Tettenhall became part of Wolverhampton district in 1966, along with Bilston, Wednesfield and parts of Willenhall, Coseley and ...

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ...

, into a Wesleyan Methodist family, the only son and heir of solicitor and politician

Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (16 May 183025 February 1911) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1908 when he was raised to the peerage. A member of the Wesleyan Me ...

and Ellen Thorneycroft , daughter of George Benjamin Thorneycroft. His sisters were the writers Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler. He was educated at Charterhouse and

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church (, the temple or house, ''wikt:aedes, ædes'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by Henry V ...

. On 8 June 1910, Fowler married Hon. Evelyn Henrietta Wrottesley (1866–1947), daughter of

Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley Arthur Wrottesley, 3rd Baron Wrottesley (17 June 1824 – 28 December 1910), was a British peer and Liberal politician. Early life and education Wrottesley was born in London, the son of John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, President of the ...

. They had no children. In 1908, his father was created Viscount Wolverhampton, the first Methodist raised to the peerage. Henry Ernest succeeded to the title on the death of his father on 25 February 1911. The title became extinct on his death in 1943 at Carswood House, Overstrand, Norfolk.

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Henry Ernest Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870-1943), National Portrait Gallery
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People from Wolverhampton People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Methodist Church of Great Britain people