289:, a socially ambitious individual who wished to make a mark in London society. Thomas Lister Parker eventually bankrupted himself due to his various extravagances but not before he had corrupted the historical record. Both Whitaker's and Baines' accounts of the history of Bowland bear witness to that corruption. The last known Bowbearer of the
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161:1485–1519 Sir Edward Stanley, later Lord Monteagle
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182:1631–1642 Sir Gilbert Hoghton
179:1594–1630 Sir Richard Hoghton
164:1519–1526 Sir Richard Tempest
143:1425–1432 Sir Thomas Tunstall
94:1212 Elias de Bolton
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103:1300 Edward de Acre
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210:1721–1754 John Parker
173:1554–1554 Sir Thomas Talbot
170:1543–1553 Sir Arthur D’Arcy
137:1403–1424 Sir Henry Hoghton
134:1372–1403 Sir Walter Urswyk
131:1353–1372 John de Radcliffe
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535:Portrait of a Bowbearer
524:The Forgotten Bowbearer
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116:1304–1311 John de Bolton
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