Phineas Bowles (1690–1749)

Lieutenant-General Phineas Bowles (24 January 1690 – 22 October 1749) was a British Army officer.

His father was a first cousin of Major-General Phineas Bowles (died 1722).

He served long as an officer in the 3rd foot guards, in which he became captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1712 (Home Off. Mil. Entry Books, vol. viii.) He made the campaigns of 1710-11 under the Duke of Marlborough, and was employed in Scotland in 1715 during the suppression of the Earl of Mar's rebellion. In 1719, being then lieutenant-colonel, 12th dragoons, he succeeded his cousin as colonel, and commanded the regiment in Ireland until 1740. He became a brigadier-general in 1735, major-general in 1739, and a lieutenant-general 27 May 1745. He was also Governor of Londonderry (Chamberlayne, Magn. Brit. Not. 1745), and colonel of the 7th horse, now the 6th dragoon guards or carabineers. He died in 1749. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley from 1735 to 1741.