Sir William Bowring, 1st Baronet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British baronet
Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1837
Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Date of Death: 20-Oct-1916
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Sir William Bowring, 1st Baronet
- Sir William Benjamin Bowring, 1st Baronet (13 February 1837 – 20 October 1916), was a British shipowner, local politician and benefactor. Bowring was a senior partner of C.
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- Bowring & Company, shipowners, 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.
- 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.
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