Sir William Benjamin Bowring, 1st Baronet (13 February 1837 – 20 October 1916), was a British shipowner, local politician and benefactor.
Sir William Bowring | |
|---|---|
| Lord Mayor of Liverpool | |
| In office 1893–1894 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Durning Holt |
| Succeeded by | William Henry Watts |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 February 1837 St. John's, Newfoundland |
| Died | 28 October 1916 (aged 79) |
Bowring was a senior partner of C. T. Bowring & Company, shipowners,[1] and served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool between 1893 and 1894. He gave Bowring Park, Knowsley, to the city of Liverpool in 1906 and was created a baronet, of Beechwood in the Parish of Grassendale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, on 23 July 1907.[2] 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.
References edit
- ^ www.marinelink.com Bowring & Company
- ^ "No. 28040". The London Gazette. 16 July 1907. p. 4858.
- ^ Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James) (1903). Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada :. Robarts - University of Toronto. Toronto : W. Briggs.