James Rowell

{{Short description|English-born Australian politician, soldier and horticulturalist}}

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| honorific-prefix =

| name = James Rowell

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| image = Senator James Rowell (cropped).jpg

| title = Senator for South Australia

| term_start = 24 May 1917

| term_end = 30 June 1923

| predecessor = William Story

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1851|1|20}}

| birth_place = Cambridge, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1940|7|6|1851|1|20}}

| death_place = Lockleys, South Australia

| nationality = English Australian

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| party = Nationalist (1917–22)
Liberal (1922–23)

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| occupation = Horticulturalist

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| allegiance = Australia

| branch= South Australian Military Force
Citizens Military Force

| serviceyears= 1877–1910
1915–1917

| rank= Colonel

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| commands= South Australian Brigade
4th Imperial Bushmen

| battles= Second Boer War
First World War

| mawards= Companion of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in Despatches
Volunteer Officers' Decoration

| relations= Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Rowell (son)

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Colonel James Rowell {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|CB|VD}} (20 January 1851 – 6 July 1940) was an English-born Australian politician, soldier and horticulturalist. Born in Cambridge, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated in state schools. He served in the military 1877–1917 before becoming aide-de-camp to the Governor-General. He was a horticulturalist, and served on West Torrens Council. In 1917, he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Nationalist Senator for South Australia, filling the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of William Story, who was contesting the House of Representatives. He contested the 1922 election as a candidate for the Liberal Party, which was a group of disaffected Nationalists opposed to the leadership of Prime Minister Billy Hughes; he was defeated. Rowell died in 1940.{{cite web|last=Carr |first=Adam |title=Australian Election Archive |work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia |year=2008 |access-date=2008-11-23 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717093439/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/ |archive-date=17 July 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://biography.senate.gov.au/james-rowell/|title=Rowell, James (1851–1940)|work=The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate|first=Derek|last=Drinkwater|volume=1|publisher=Melbourne University Press|year=2000}}{{Cite web|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rowell-james-8283|title=Rowell, James (1851–1940)|first=S. F.|last=Rowell|volume=11|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1988}}