Anthony Rowe (after 1641 – 9 September 1704) was an English Whig politician who sat in the

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for several periods between 1689 and 1701.

Biography

Rowe was the son of Sir Thomas Rowe of

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by his wife Anne Langton. He was a descendant of William Rowe and was a cousin of

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. In the 1670s, Rowe became an associate of

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was an English nobleman and military officer. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest ill ...

and served as his adjutant during the Flanders campaign of 1678. In 1679 he was granted lease of a

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for five years. He remained aligned to Monmouth and in 1683 he was publicly denied any association with the

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. Rowe was briefly arrested during the

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in 1685, but was soon released, and in March 1688 he was granted a general pardon by James II. Rowe was a supporter of the

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of 1688 and in 1689 he was appointed to superintend the collection of taxes in western England. The same year, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Penryn, appointed

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in the household of

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, and made a justice of the peace for

. During the Convention Parliament, he compiled and published a

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of those MPs who had voted that James II had not left the throne vacant during the Revolution, with the aim of influencing the subsequent election. In 1690, Rowe was returned for Mitchell. He then represented Stockbridge from November to December 1693, before sitting again for Mitchell from January 1701 to March 1701.

Marriage and issue

He married Mary Manley, a daughter of Robert Manley, of Stepney, Middlesex, a merchant, but died without male issue, leaving three daughters and co-heiresses: *Mary Rowe (Viscountess Hillsborough) (1683/4-1742), wife successively of Sir Edmund Denton, 1st Baronet, (1676-1714) of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, MP, and of

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Hill was the eldest son of M ...

(1693-1742) *Charlotte Rowe (d.1742), wife of Lt-Col. George Forrester, 5th Lord ForresterStirnet
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, Scotland, MP.COCKBURN, John (c.1679-1758), of Ormiston, Haddington, Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 200

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rowe, Anthony 1640s births Year of birth unknown 1704 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English justices of the peace English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1701 Whig members of the pre-1707 English Parliament