UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 15 January 1841

Died: 12 January 1922

son of Susannah Bowles

husband of Jessica Evans-Gordon

King's College, London

Journalist

4 February 1874	Darlington	Conservative Party	305	8.62
31 March 1880	Banbury	Conservative Party	583	36.41
25 November 1885	Salford South	Conservative Party	3,706	49.63
4 July 1892	King's Lynn	Conservative Party	1,319	50.21
15 July 1895	King's Lynn	Conservative Party	1,395	51.27
1 October 1900	King's Lynn	Conservative Party	1,499	52.95
15 January 1906	King's Lynn	Independent Conservative	1,164	33.82
Thomas Bowles had been refused readoption by the local Conservative Association on account of his support of free trade.
27 February 1906	City of London	Free Trade	4,134	21.08
27 February 1906 Thomas Bowles contested the election at the invitation of the local Liberal Association and received a letter of support from the Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, despite being a former Conservative MP.
2 March 1909	Glasgow Central	Liberal Party	5,185	41.54
15 January 1910	King's Lynn	Liberal Party	1,900	53.70
3 December 1910	King's Lynn	Liberal Party	1,668	48.59
23 March 1916	Harborough	Independent	3,711	32.17
23 March 1916 Thomas Bowles was the nominee of an organisation called the Leicestershire Attested Married Man's Protest Society.