Thomas William Lemuel Prowse (August 31, 1888 – November 2, 1973) was a businessman and was the 17th

Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island The lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island () is the representative in Prince Edward Island of the monarch, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada. The lieutenant go ...

from 1950 to 1958. The son of Lemuel Ezra Prowse and Frances J. Stanley, he was born and educated in

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. He was proprietor and president of Prowse Brothers Ltd. in Charlottetown. Active in local politics, he was a councillor on

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for eight years and served as the 26th mayor from 1930 to 1932. A Liberal, he was elected to the

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representing the Charlottetown Common and Royalty District in Queens County, first in the 1935 general election and again in

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. In 1950 he was appointed lieutenant governor of the island and served for eight years.

References

Official biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prowse, Thomas 1888 births 1973 deaths Charlottetown city councillors Lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island Mayors of Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs 20th-century mayors of places in Prince Edward Island 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island