Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet (21 September 1623 – 18 July 1666) was a 17th-century English soldier and politician.
[1] Bowyer was a Colonel in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and fought at the Battle of Hopton Heath and was involved in the destruction of Eccleshall Castle.
He was excluded from the House of Commons under Pride's Purge on 6 December 1646.
[1] On the Restoration, as Colonel of the Staffordshire Militia, he arrested Maj-Gen Thomas Harrison as one of the Regicides of Charles I.
[2] Bowyer was created a baronet by Charles II on 11 September 1660.