3-074-675 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new Lord Mayor of London, 1883. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Barraud. 'Alderman Robert Nicholas Fowler, M.P., is son of the late Mr. Thomas Fowler, banker, of Bruce-green, Tottenham, belonging to an old Quaker family. He was...educated at University College, London; graduated at the London University in 1848, and in 1850 proceeded to the degree of M.A. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1853, a member of the Council in 1856, and is one of the Senate of the University of London. He is a banker in Cornhill; the firm being Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, Barnard, and Dimsdales. He is a magistrate for London, Middlesex, and Wilts. He was elected Alderman of Cornhill ward in June, 1878; and in 1880 served the office of Sheriff...He unsuccessfully contested the City of London in the Conservative interest at the general election in 1865. He sat for Penrhyn and Falmouth in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874; and since April, 1880, has been one of the three Conservative members for the city of London. He is author of "A Tour in Japan, China, and India;" and has recently returned from a visit to the Cape Colony. He...was left a widower in 1876, with a large family. He has a country house near Chippenham, in Wiltshire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.