Richard Rowley (MP)
{{short description|British Conservative Party politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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|honorific-prefix =
|name = Richard Rowley
|honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}}
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|office = Member of Parliament
for Harwich
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|term_start = 24 April 1860
|term_end = 12 July 1865
|alongside = Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
|predecessor = Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
William Campbell
|successor = Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
John Kelk
|birth_date = 1812
|birth_place = Bodrhyddan Hall, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales
|death_date = {{death date and given age|df=yes|1887|11|11|75}}
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|nationality = British
|party = Conservative
|parents = Clotworthy Rowley
Frances Rowley
|spouse = {{marriage|Alice Henrietta Berners|9 July 1872}}
{{marriage|Charlotte Shipley|24 June 1835|end=d.|29 June 1871}}
|children = Three
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Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley (1812 – 11 November 1887){{Rayment-hc|h|1|date=February 2018}} was a British Conservative Party politician.
Family
Rowley was the son of Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford, and Frances Rowley. He married Charlotte Shipley, daughter of William Shipley and Charlotte Williams-Wynn on 24 June 1835. Together, they had three children:{{cite web|title=Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p22087.htm|website=The Peerage|accessdate=16 February 2018}}
- Eva Rowley (died 1904)
- Gwenwydd Frances Rowley ({{circa|1838}}–1892)
- Conwy Greville Hercules Rowley-Conwy (1841–1900)
After Charlotte died in 1871, Rowley remarried to Alice Henrietta Berners, daughter of Hugh Berners and Julia Alice Ashton, on 9 July 1872.
Political career
He was elected MP for Harwich at a by-election in 1860 but did not seek re-election in 1865.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}
Other activities
Rowley was at one point Captain in the Scots Guards, a Deputy Lieutenant of Flintshire, and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the 6th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps.
References
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External links
- {{Hansard-contribs | hon-richard-rowley | Hon. Richard Rowley }}
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{{s-bef| before = Henry Jervis-White-Jervis |before2= William Campbell }}
{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Harwich
|with = Henry Jervis-White-Jervis
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{{s-aft| after= Henry Jervis-White-Jervis |after2= John Kelk
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Category:Deputy lieutenants of Flintshire
Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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