RARE "1st Baronet" Sir Robert Fowler Hand Signed Album Page For Sale
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RARE "1st Baronet" Sir Robert Fowler Hand Signed Album Page:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baronet" Sir Robert Fowler Hand Signed Album Page.
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Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP (12 22 May 1891 Harley Street, London) was a member of parliament and Lord
Mayor of London. He was born the son of Thomas Fowler of Gastard, Wiltshire. He attended Grove House School,
Tottenham and London University where he was awarded a B.A. degree in 1848. He
was a banker and M.P. for the Penryn and Falmouth Constituency, (1868–1874) and Conservative M.P. for
the City of
London Constituency (1880–1891). He was also elected Sheriff of the City of
London for 1880 and Lord Mayor of London in
1883 and 1885, the last Lord Mayor to serve multiple terms. He was created
a baronet in 1885. He was the author of A visit to
Japan, China and India. According to Frank Harris,
an admittedly unreliable source, Fowler excited the disgust of his fellow
guests at a dinner given by William Thackeray Marriott by
breaking wind copiously, and being apparently unconscious of giving offence.
George Shaw-Lefevre MP
noted that, due to plural voting (whereby
property owners could vote both in the constituency where their property lay
and that in which they lived), Fowler had no fewer than thirteen votes in
different constituencies. At one General Election Fowler managed,
energetically, to use all thirteen votes in one day. In 1890, Fowler
was described as "of Gastard, Wilts., a JP and DL for Middlesex and Wilts, an Alderman of London".
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