Sir John Robert Mowbray, 1st Baronet
PC (3 June 1815 – 22 April 1899), known as John Cornish until 1847, was a British
Conservative
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politician and long-serving
Member of Parliament, eventually serving as
Father of the House
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.
Family and education
Mowbray was the son of Robert Stirling Cornish and was educated at
Westminster School
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and
Christ Church, Oxford
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.
In 1847 he married Elizabeth Mowbray, the sole heiress of George Isaac Mowbray of
Bishopwearmouth
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. The same year he assumed by royal licence the surname Mowbray in lieu of his patronymic to reflect the large fortune into which he married. They had three sons, all of whom succeeded to their
father's baronetcy, and two daughters:
* Annie Maud Mowbray (died 29 Oct 1926), who married the Rev.
Charles Thomas Cruttwell, canon residentiary of
Peterborough
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* Edith Marian Mowbray (died 27 March 1933), unmarried
*
Sir Robert Gray Cornish Mowbray, 2nd Baronet (21 May 1850 – 23 July 1916)
* Sir Reginald Ambrose Mowbray, 3rd Baronet (5 April 1852 – 30 December 1916)
* Rev. Sir Edmund George Lionel Mowbray, 4th Baronet (26 June 1859 – 2 February 1919)
Career
In 1853 Mowbray was elected to the
House of Commons
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for
Durham, a seat he held until 1868, and then represented
Oxford University
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from 1868 until his death in 1899. In the House, he was chair of the
Committee of Selection and of the Standing Orders Committee.
He served as
Judge Advocate General under the
Earl of Derby
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from 1858 to 1859, and under Derby and later
Benjamin Disraeli
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from 1866 to 1868. He was admitted to the
Privy Council in 1858 and in 1880 he was created a
baronet
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. From 1898 until his death the following year Mowbray was
Father of the House of Commons.
A bronze bust was erected as a memorial in the House of Commons in 1900.
Notes
Sources
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External links
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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