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(c.1425-1477) was an English administrator.  He was the son of
William Fowler of Preston manor in Buckinghamshire. He inherited
the manor after his father's death.  He held several posts
including king's solicitor from 1461 to 1470 (the first to hold
this post) and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1462 to
1477, before being appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer from
1469 to 1471 and Under-Treasurer of England in 1471. He was
knighted by Edward IV in 1467.  Richard Fowler was the nephew of
Sybil Quartermain and whilst the Quartermains lived at Rycote,
Oxfordshire, Richard Fowler lived at the Quartermain family's
ancestral home at North Weston, Somerset. The Quartermains had
no surviving children and their estate at Rycote passed to
Fowler.  He died on 3 November 1477 and was buried at St
Rumwold's church in Buckingham. He had married Joan. the
daughter of Henry Danvers, a London mercer. H