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Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP (12 22 May 1891 Harley Street, London) was a member of parliament and Lord

Mayor of London. He was born the son of Thomas Fowler of Gastard, Wiltshire. He attended Grove House School,

Tottenham and London University where he was awarded a B.A. degree in 1848. He

was a banker and M.P. for the Penryn and Falmouth Constituency, (1868–1874) and Conservative M.P. for

the City of

London Constituency (1880–1891). He was also elected Sheriff of the City of

London for 1880 and Lord Mayor of London in

1883 and 1885, the last Lord Mayor to serve multiple terms. He was created

a baronet in 1885. He was the author of A visit to

Japan, China and India. According to Frank Harris,

an admittedly unreliable source, Fowler excited the disgust of his fellow

guests at a dinner given by William Thackeray Marriott by

breaking wind copiously, and being apparently unconscious of giving offence.

George Shaw-Lefevre MP

noted that, due to plural voting (whereby

property owners could vote both in the constituency where their property lay

and that in which they lived), Fowler had no fewer than thirteen votes in

different constituencies. At one General Election Fowler managed,

energetically, to use all thirteen votes in one day. In 1890, Fowler

was described as "of Gastard, Wilts., a JP and DL for Middlesex and Wilts, an Alderman of London".

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