Sir Henry Bowles, 1st Baronet

Colonel Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles, 1st Baronet (19 December 1858 – 14 October 1943), was a British military officer and Conservative politician.

He was the eldest son of Henry Carrington Bowles Bowles of Myddelton House, Bulls Cross, Hertfordshire and Cornelia née Kingdom. He was educated at Harrow School and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1881 and a master of arts in 1884. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1883. He married Florence "Dolly" Broughton of Tunstall Hall, Shropshire in 1889. In 1895 he moved to Forty Hall, near Enfield, Middlesex, which his father had purchased in the previous year. His younger brother Gussie was the distinguished horticulturalist E.A. Bowles.

Bowles had a long association with the reserve forces of the British Army, holding commissions in the Militia, Volunteer Force and Territorial Force. He was first commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Own Tower Hamlets Militia in August 1878, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1880. Under the Childers Reforms, the Tower Hamlets militia became the 7th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in 1881. Bowles was promoted to captain in February 1882. He eventually rose to the rank of major and honorary lieutenant colonel of the battalion. In May 1899 he transferred to the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. When the volunteers were reorganised as the Territorial Force in 1908, Bowles was appointed honorary colonel of the successor 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. During the First World War he was appointed county commandant for volunteer units in Middlesex, and retired at the end of the conflict with rank of colonel.

...
Wikipedia