Gerald Bowden
Gerald Francis Bowden was a British Conservative MP, who represented Dulwich from 1983 until 1992. He was defeated by future Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell in the 1992 general election.
Gerald Bowden also represented Dulwich on the Greater London Council 1977–81. He was an honours graduate in Jurisprudence from Magdalen College, Oxford; was called to the bar at Gray's Inn and qualified as a chartered surveyor at the College of Estate Management, practising part-time in these professions. He held an academic appointment as a principal lecturer in the law of property at London South Bank University from 1971–1984. On leaving Parliament he took up an academic appointment at Kingston University and resumed practice at the planning bar.
He was a trustee of the Royal Albert Hall, and was previously Chairman of the Dulwich Estate and the Walcot Foundation, a trustee of the Magdalen College Development Trust, and the Oxford and Cambridge Club. Commissioned during National Service he continued to serve in the T.A retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.Personal life
Bowden's daughter Emma died when the seaplane she was travelling in crashed into Cowan Creek, north of the Australian city of Sydney, on New Year's Eve, 2017. Emma and her daughter Heather Bowden-Page were both killed immediately alongside her fiancé Richard Cousins, 58, and his two sons William, 25, and Edward, 23.
