Sir William Benjamin Bowring, 1st Baronet (13 February 1837 – 20 October 1916), was a British shipowner, local politician and benefactor. Bowring was a senior partner of C. T. Bowring & Company, shipowners, and served as

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between 1893 and 1894. He gave Bowring Park, Knowsley, to the city of

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in 1906 and was created a

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, of Beechwood in the Parish of Grassendale in the

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, on 23 July 1907. He died in October 1916, aged 79, when the title became extinct. He was the son of Charles Tricks Bowring and grandson of Benjamin Bowring and brother of Charles R. Bowring of Newfoundland. Isabel M Bowring

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowring, William Benjamin 1837 births 1916 deaths Newfoundland Colony people Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Politicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Mayors of Liverpool Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates