Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley (1812 – 11 November 1887)
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:
* Eva Rowley (died 1904)
* Gwenwydd Frances Rowley (–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
Harwich is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. It is in the Tendring district. Nearby places include Felixstowe to the north-east, Ipswich to the north-west, Colchester to the south-west and Clacton-on- ...
at a
by-election in 1860 but did not seek re-election in
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at Broad Street (Manhattan), 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Sec ...
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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
The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United St ...
.
References
External links
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Deputy Lieutenants of Flintshire
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1859–1865
1812 births
1887 deaths
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