George Bowyer

Sir George Boyer, 7th Baronet and 3rd Baronet (October 8, 1811 - June 7, 1883) was a British lawyer and liberal politician. Born at the Radley Hall in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), he was the son of Sir George Boyer, 6th Baronet, and Anna Hammond Douglas. Boyer was a cadet at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich and then was drafted into the college of lawyers in the Middle Temple in 1836. He received an Honorary Master of Arts from the University of Oxford in 1839 and an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 1844. a year later he moved to the Lincoln hotel. In 1860, he excelled in both baronets held by his father. After competing with Reading in the by-elections in 1849, Boyer became a Member of Parliament (DP) in Dundalk from 1852 to 1868 and in Wexford County from 1874 to 1880. The Roman Catholic Church of St. John of Jerusalem on Great Ormond Street in London was built at his own expense. It was made by the Knight of Justice of the Order of Malta, the Knightly Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and the Great Collar of the Constantine Order of St. George of Naples. Boyer served as chamberlain of Pius IX, who appointed him Knight of the Great Ribbon of the Order of Pius IX. He was later deputy lieutenant from Berkshire. He was a member of the Order of the strange members of Manchester Unity, at one time he led the procession under the banner of the Loyal Bower Union Lodge of Strange Wanderers. Boyer died on a bench in London at the age of 71 and was not married. He was found dead in his bed and was buried at Radley in Berkshire on June 7, 1883. He was succeeded by his younger brother.