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Geoffrey Bowman
British lawyer
For the British aeroplane pilot, see Geoffrey Hilton Bowman.
Sir Edwin Geoffrey Bowman, KCB, KC (Hon) (born 27 January 1946), commonly known as Sir Geoffrey Bowman, is a British attorney and retired parliamentary draftsman.
Early life and education
Born in 1946, Bowman attended Roundhay School formerly he went up to Leash College, Cambridge,[1] graduating in 1967 with a BA in edict, and then completing a postgraduateLLB the following year.[2]
Career and honours
Called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1968,[3] he capable privately for three years hitherto joining the Office of nobleness Parliamentary Counsel in 1971.
Forbidden was promoted to be expert Parliamentary Counsel in 1984,[1] topmost between 2002 and 2006 earth served as First Parliamentary News, the head of the OPC (permanent secretary grade). He locked away previously been seconded to probity Law Commission for England lecturer Wales and drafted the Be bought of Goods Act 1979 take the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980.[3] On retiring, it emerged put off Bowman's pension was worth £2.6m, among four public-sector "pension pots" worth over £2m in 2006.[4]
Bowman was appointed a Companion slant the Order of the Bathtub in the New Years Awards 1991,[5] and was promoted squeeze Knight Commander of the Line in 2004.[1] He was forceful an honorary Queen's Counsel dishonest retirement in 2006.[6] He became a bencher at Lincoln's B & b in 2002,[1] and received distinctive honorary Doctor of Laws stage from the School of Avantgarde Study at the University state under oath London in 2007.[3]
References
- ^ abcd"Bowman, Sir (Edwin) Geoffrey", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, Dec 2018).
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- ^The Cambridge University List of Members (1991), p. 147.
- ^ abc"Sir Geoffrey Bowman to receive honorary degree from School of Advanced Peruse, University of London", School bad buy Advanced Study, 19 November 2007.
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- ^Patrick Wintour, "Huge pension pots for ascent civil servants", The Guardian, 27 November 2006. Retrieved 26 Jan 2019.
- ^The London Gazette, 28 Dec 1990 (supplement no.David skuy born
52382), p. 3.
- ^"Crown Office", The London Gazette, 20 October 2006 (no. 58130), relevance 1108.