Edmund Bowyer (died 1627)

Sir Edmund Bowyer (12 May 1552 – 18 February 1627) was an English lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1624.

Bowyer was the eldest son of John Bowyer of Camberwell and his second wife, Elizabeth Draper, daughter of Robert Draper, gentleman, of Camberwell, Surrey, Page of the Jewels to King Henry VIII.

From 1582 he was J.P. for Surrey and in 1583, Bowyer added to his Surreyestate by buying one-fifth of the manor of Camberwell Buckingham.

He was one of the governors of the free grammar school at Camberwell, which was founded under letters patent granted in September 1615.

[1] Bowyer left his estates in Camberwell to his nephew Edmund who was later MP for Gatton.