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Rowlatt Satyagraha
Rowlatt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edmund Rowlatt (1633–1693), British Anglican priest * John Rowlatt (1898–1956), British lawyer * Justin Rowlatt (born 1966), British journalist and television presenter * Kathy Rowlatt (born 1948), British diver * Sidney Rowlatt (1862–1945), English lawyer and judge ** Rowlatt Act ** Rowlatt Committee {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Rowlatt
Edmund Rowlatt (1633–1693) was an Anglican priest in the second half of the seventeenth century. Rowlatt was born in Loddington, Northamptonshire and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from .... He was Archdeacon of Achonry from 1668 to 1693."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p. 108: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 References Archdeacons of Achonry 17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge People from Northamptonshire 1633 births 1693 deaths {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowlatt
Sir John Rowlatt, KCB, KCIE, MC, QC (19 November 1898 – 4 July 1956) was a British lawyer who served as First Parliamentary Counsel. Biography John Rowlatt was the third son of Sidney Rowlatt, a High Court judge who presided over the a committee regarding British India. John was educated at Eton College from 1911, as a King's Scholar. He earned a number of medals and prizes: he was Newcastle Scholar in 1915, and School Captain, Newcastle Medallist and Alfred Lyttelton Scholar in 1917, his final year before going up to Christ Church, Oxford. He served in the Coldstream Guards in the First World War between 1917 and 1918,"Sir J. Rowlatt", ''The Times'', 5 July 1956, p. 14. lost a leg, and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he returned to Christ Church, graduating with a BA in classics in 1921. He then qualified as a lawyer, being called to the bar in 1922. He went into practice in the commercial and common law courts, until joining the Office of the Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Rowlatt
Justin Rowlatt (born June 1966) is a British journalist, news reporter and television presenter who is currently working as Climate Editor for BBC News. He has previously been the BBC's South Asia Correspondent, based in Delhi and also its chief environment correspondent. Education Justin Rowlatt was born in June 1966 in London. He went to school at Hampstead Comprehensive in Cricklewood, and later graduated in philosophy, politics and economics from Mansfield College, Oxford in 1987. Career Rowlatt has been a correspondent on ''Newsnight'', ''Channel 4 News'' and ''Panorama'' and has been nominated for Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards for his work. Early career One of Rowlatt's first jobs in television was as an assistant producer on current affairs documentary ''Panorama'', where, among many other stories, he worked on a programme which showed how Mercedes, Volkswagen and Volvo car dealers were fixing prices in Britain. During his time on ''Channel 4 News'', he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Rowlatt
Kathleen 'Kathy' R Rowlatt (born 14 May 1948) is a British former diver. Diving career She competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. She represented England and won a gold medal in the 3 metres springboard, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is .... References 1948 births Living people People from Leyton Sportspeople from the London Borough of Waltham Forest British female divers Olympic divers for Great Britain Divers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists in diving Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Medallists at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{UK-acrobatics-diving-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Rowlatt
Sir Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt, KCSI, PC (20 July 1862 – 1 March 1945) was a British barrister and judge, remembered in part for his presidency of the sedition committee that bore his name, created in 1918 by the imperial government to subjugate and control the independence movement in British India, especially Bengal and the Punjab. The committee gave rise to the Rowlatt Act, an extension of the Defence of India Act 1915. Early life Sidney Rowlatt was born in 1862 in Cairo and brought up in Alexandria, one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean. His father was Arthur Rowlatt, sent out by the Bank of England to take a post at the Bank of Egypt, and his second wife Amelia, the Alexandria-born daughter of Sidney Terry, merchant. His parents married on 9 May 1860 at the Anglican church in Alexandria. Her English grandparents, John and Sarah Friend, had moved to Egypt in 1825, and the family maintained working ties there for well over a century. Sidney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowlatt Act
The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, was a law, applied during the British India period. It was a legislative council act passed by the Imperial Legislative Council in Delhi on 18 March 1919, indefinitely extending the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention, imprisonment without trial and judicial review enacted in the Defence of India Act 1915 during the First World War. It was enacted in the light of a perceived threat from revolutionary nationalists of re-engaging in similar conspiracies as had occurred during the war which the Government felt the lapse of the Defence of India Act would enable. Purpose and introduction The British Colonial Government passed the "Rowlatt Act" which gave power to the police to arrest any person without any reason. The purpose of the Act was to curb the growing nationalist upsurge in the country. Mahatma Gandhi called upon the people to perform ''satyagraha'' against the act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |