J. H. Bowman

James Henry Bowman was the third son of Edward Bowman. He was a member of the building and contractors company Messrs Bowman and Sons in Stamford.^[1] Bowman was elected to Stamford Town Council in 1911 and elevated to alderman in 1926. He was a long-serving chairman of the Town Council's Finance Committee and was mayor of Stamford in 1926, 1927 and 1928.^[2]

Bowman was also elected to Kesteven County Council in 1917 and was made an alderman in 1931. In 1937, he was appointed its vice-chairman and served until his death. He was also chairman of its Education Committee and in 1938 was president of the East Midlands Educational Union.^[2][3]

In the First World War, he was a distribution officer for the Ministry of Food and a director of transport for the North Midland Division; he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of this service.^[4] During the General Strike of 1926, Bowman was a food officer. In 1926 he was also appointed a justice of the peace for Kesteven and three years later was made a magistrate for Stamford. He was a Liberal and chaired the Rutland and Stamford Divisional Liberal Association. Bowman died on 6 November 1940, aged 66.^[1]