Richard Rowley | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Harwich |
Term Start: | 24 April 1860 |
Term End: | 12 July 1865 |
Alongside: | Henry Jervis-White-Jervis |
Successor: | Henry Jervis-White-Jervis John Kelk |
Birth Date: | 1812 |
Birth Place: | Bodrhyddan Hall, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, Wales |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Conservative |
Parents: | Clotworthy Rowley Frances Rowley |
Spouse: | |
Children: | Three |
Hon. Richard Thomas Rowley (1812 – 11 November 1887) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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:[1]
After Charlotte died in 1871, Rowley remarried to Alice Henrietta Berners, daughter of Hugh Berners and Julia Alice Ashton, on 9 July 1872.[1]
He was elected MP for Harwich at a by-election in 1860 but did not seek re-election in 1865.[2]
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.[1]