Robert Nicholas Fowler
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Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1856-57 Member
ESL Council 1857-58 Member
ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]
ESL Council 1860-61 Member
possibly more, as yet unclear
House Notes
death noted in report of council for 1891
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP (12 September 1828, Tottenham, Middlesex – 22 May 1891 Harley Street, London) was an MP and Lord Mayor of London.
DEATH OF SIR ROBERT FOWLER. LONDON, MAY 22. The death is announced of Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, Bart., at New York. [Sir Robert Fowler was born at Tottenham on September 12, 1828, and was the son of Thomas Fowler, of Tottenham. He was educated at University College, London; B.A. London, 1848, second in mathematics and fifth in classical honours; M.A. 1850, by examination in mathematics; Fellow of IUiversity College, 1856; member of the Senate of the University of London, 1884. Sir R. N. Fowler was member for Penryn, 1868 to 1874. and has been member for the city of London since 1880; Alderman for London, 1878; Sheriff, in 1880; and Lord Mayor, 1883.-8, and again during part of 1885. Hi was created a baronet in 1885. He published "Japan,
China, and India" in 1876, and visited New Zealand and Australia in 1886, but did not publish any account of his travels. He became a banker in London in 1850, a member of the Committee of Bankers in
1889, and President of the Bankers' Institute].
In 1866 R. N. Fowler was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Penryn at a bye-election.
[1873] R. N. Fowler won a seat for the Conservatives at Penryn.
Western Daily Press Bristol, England
27 May 1891: THE LATE SIR ROBERT N. FOWLER, M.P
Member of the Athenaeum from 1884